00:06John Paul II has decided, Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, the registry office Francesco Forgione from today will be
00:13venerable, it is the first step to reach the glory of the altars. Who was this friar?
00:18Cappuccino? Millions of pilgrims flocked to him, with the offerings that came to him.
00:23from all over the world a huge hospital has been built. Every morning in front of the convent of
00:29Caravans of devotees would arrive in San Giovanni Rotondo to attend his mass. Padre Pio was born
00:36May 25, 1887 in Pietrelcina in the province of Benevento, he is the second of eight children, a boy
00:43A quiet man of poor health, at 15 he entered a convent and was ordained a priest for seven years.
00:49later. On September 20, 1918, some friars found him in the church unconscious on the floor with his arms
00:56open, hands bleed, wounds will never heal. Meet the faithful above all
01:01in the confessional where he remains for up to 14 hours. The church is skeptical, undergoing five canonical trials
01:08and 20 disciplinary investigations. He emerged unscathed from the Giuffré banker scandal. On September 22nd
01:151968 the friar of the stigmata, who had been ill for some time, appears for the last time to bless a small
01:21crowd, dies in the night. Renzo Allegri, the friar's biographer, took the night of all the miracles
01:28that were attributed to him. He was a saint full of charisms which are gifts that God gives freely,
01:36bilocation, stigmata, mind reading, the ability to speak with deceased people,
01:43visions and all this made him and makes him a special, extraordinary saint. He had
01:50enemies? He had so many enemies, so much so that he was condemned when he was
01:57in life four times from the holy office and why? Because all the phenomenology
02:02that manifested itself in him raised suspicions, raised prejudices, provoked worries
02:09by the ecclesiastical authorities who feared that he was deceiving the faithful.
02:14Album of the devotees.
02:27Some testimonies from those who prayed to him and received grace.
02:31That day my mother came near my bed and opened a drawer of the bedside table
02:39he saw that there was a picture of Padre Pio and recognized the postcard she sent me
02:44when he met Padre Pio in '67. I had been in bed for three months, unfortunately I couldn't
02:54I couldn't move, I was in terrible pain, they treated me with morphine and I remember falling asleep.
03:01After a while I woke up because I could smell a very strong, pungent floral scent.
03:06of oranges. And I felt that I was moving my left leg, something that I hadn't done for three months.
03:14I could do.
03:15I found him, I met him quite casually. It was a trip with some friends, between
03:22but Carlo Campanini, his spiritual son, was there. And we went up to San Giovanni
03:27Round and I found myself in front of this little friar with these... he had a mouth like
03:32a child, he had two eyes that looked like burning coals, of a depth, a strength
03:40Magnetic for me. Well, I had a physical, almost physical impact with this love of hers.
03:48Have any of the admirers of Pope John Paul II ever met?
03:53They met in the summer of 1947. Voitila, a young priest, was studying theology in Rome.
04:02and he had gone to visit him. It is said that in that meeting Padre Pio predicted to him
04:07who would become Pope and who would also suffer a serious attack because he saw the
04:12his white robe all stained with blood.
04:15How did he live his life in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo?
04:19His day was basic, he got up at 4 in the morning, got ready for mass
04:24and he said at 5 and then practically all the time was divided between prayer in church
04:30and the confessions. Dinner and lunch reduced to a minimum, to nothing at all. And the night remains
04:37a mystery because during the night, as he confided to those close to her,
04:42he devoted himself to visiting people, that is, in bilocation, he travelled around the world,
04:49He went to those who were sick, to those who had invoked him. We have many testimonies from people
04:57who dreamed of him, saw him standing up in bed and then recovered.
05:01Padre Pio looked at himself with detachment and irony. He said to his admirers,
05:05boy, the saints are in heaven.
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