Saint Padre Pio
Saint Padre Pio
- Feast day Sept 23
The Forgione family lived in the poorest
section of Pietrelcina. Francesco was
poor, but by his own testimony, he never
lacked for anything. Values were much
different in those days. A child
considered himself well off if he had
the basics in life. Francesco came from
a good family. His father, Grazio, and
his mother Maria Guiseppa, were hard
working farmers. Their children’s well
being was number one in their
priorities. They were able to provide
for their family’s needs, but not much
more. There were no frills. Francesco
grew up a very sensitive, very spiritual
boy. It was as if he knew from earliest
childhood, the road the Lord had for him
to follow. He would always follow that
road.His mother, Guiseppa, claimed that
Francesco was a good boy, who never gave
her any trouble. Naturally, she’d say
that. She was a mother. Padre Pio, on
the other hand, had a few comments to
make about little Francesco Forgione.
While he admitted that he was never
spanked, he recalled his mother running
after him, calling out, “Come here, you
shameless boy!” When asked why she did
this, the famous grin, and little
twinkle came into his eye. “Little
incidents with my sister.” That one
sentence affirms that, while he was
specially chosen, he was a normal
boy!His world was the little church of
Our Lady of the Angels. It might as well
have been his home. All the important
events in his early life, took place in
that church. In addition to being
baptized there, receiving his First Holy
Communion, and Confirmation there, he
went into ecstasy in that church, and
had an apparition of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus at age five, there. “Our Lord
Jesus appeared to Francesco, and
beckoned him to come to the main altar.”
He placed His hand on Francesco’s head.
The course of his life, and his vocation
were sealed. He offered himself as
victim at that early age.Age five was an
important time for Francesco, a turning
point, so to speak. He began to have
apparitions of Our Lady, which continued
all his life. It was also then that
demons began to torture him. There’s an
elm tree on the Piana Romana (Roman
Plain), which has been picked clean by
over-enthusiastic pilgrims since Padre
Pio lived there. Francesco used to sit
under that tree to take advantage
"Padre Pio
began to receive what he termed "red
patches, about the size of a cent, and
accompanied by acute pain." This is from
a letter he sent Padre Benedetto on the
Birthday of Mary, September 8, 1911. He
went on to say, "The pain was much more
acute in the left hand and it still
persists. I also feel some pain in the
soles of my feet." He told his superior
that this had been happening, on and
off, for almost a year. So from the time
of Padre Pio's ordination, at twenty
three years old, he began to feel in his
body, the wounds of the Passion of
Christ. The physical signs disappeared,
but the pain continued...."
Taken from
"Saints
and Other Powerful Men in the Church."
Saint Padre Pio the Perfect Confessor - Stigmatist
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"Padre Pio began to receive what he termed "red
patches, about the size of a cent, and accompanied by acute pain." This is
from a letter he sent Padre Benedetto on the Birthday of Mary, September 8,
1911. He went on to say, "The pain was much more acute in the left hand and
it still persists. I also feel some pain in the soles of my feet." He told
his superior that this had been happening, on and off, for almost a year.
So from the time of Padre Pio's ordination, at twenty three years old, he
began to feel in his body, the wounds of the Passion of Christ. The
physical signs disappeared, but the pain continued...."
Taken from "Saints and Other
Powerful Men in the Church."
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