Minoli ripercorre la storia di #PadrePio dal 1918 fino alla celebrazione della sua santificazione il 16 giugno 2002. Sui numerosi momenti salienti della sua vita, come la vocazione e la comparsa delle stimmate, vengono intervistati, fra gli altri, Stefano Zitti, superiore del Convento di Pietrelcina, il frate Alberto D'Apolito, Ippolito Lucchesi, figlio spirituale di Padre PIo, i giornalisti Giovanni Gigliozzi ed Enrico Malatesta.
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00:11Dear children, give your children a caress and say this is a father's caress.
00:18Right now in Washington, after a long journey,
00:21in this regard also and I would say, above all, of the Italian people,
00:32the other way animates to no other identity.
01:02I still have a dream, I have a dream.
01:10I have a dream, I have a dream, I have a dream, I have a dream.
01:34The friars felt dispossessed, obedient but hurt, they said publicly.
01:38The papal decision to remove the management of the Padre Pio sanctuary in San Giovanni Rotondo from the friars
01:44opened a conflict with the cure.
01:46The friars, true heirs and guardians of San Pio, have been reduced from property to Serra.
01:51The Vatican spokesman clarifies that the Capuchin Fathers will continue to care for the sanctuary of San Giovanni Rotondo.
01:57but that the archbishop has the right and duty to supervise the pastoral activity carried out in his diocese.
02:09So you've heard that Padre Pio's sanctuary in San Giovanni Rotondo is once again at the centre of controversy.
02:15just like when Padre Pio exercised his ministry as a Capuchin friar.
02:22But Padre Pio, whom Pope John wanted to be a saint and proclaimed him on June 16, 2002
02:29remains one of the most beloved figures by Italians and in the world.
02:35Today, almost a year after his canonization, we want to retrace his story, the story of Padre Pio.
02:43which began almost a century ago in 1918 when Padre Pio was the protagonist of an extraordinary event.
02:52It was the morning of the 20th of last month, I was in the choir after the celebration of Holy Mass
02:57when he was surprised by a rest similar to a sweet sleep.
03:00All the internal and external senses, as well as the very faculties of the soul, were in an indescribable quiet.
03:07For about 50 years his hands looked like what you see in this photo.
03:14But now we have the opportunity to show you some other photographs of Padre Pio.
03:19taken immediately after his death by the brothers of San Giovanni Rotondo.
03:24Here you can see how they looked on September 23, 1968, the day of their death,
03:29the hands, the side, the feet of Padre Pio without any wound or scar.
03:36Here, and this is the disconcerting fact, according to some a real miracle
03:42because the stigmata that have marked for 50 years, 50 years or so, have marked continuously
03:51and also in a tormented way, because they were very painful, the body of Padre Pio
03:56they disappeared at the time of death.
03:59But his life is always, the life of Padre Pio has always been shrouded in mystery.
04:04and to understand it thoroughly we felt the need to start from the beginning
04:09and to meet this extraordinary Capuchin as a child in his hometown.
04:17This is Pietrelcina, the small village in the Benevento area.
04:21Padre Pio, born Francesco Forgione, was born here on May 25, 1887.
04:29He was born to Grazio Forgione, his father, and Maria di Nunzio, his mother.
04:34Francesco is a sickly child, he spends his days taking his father's sheep to pasture.
04:39On the mountain, in silence, he prays or carves small pieces of wood into crosses.
04:44A silent, shy, reserved child.
04:48He didn't play much with his peers because he was afraid of swear words.
04:57and any blasphemies that came out of the mouths of his companions.
05:01There is a stone that reminds us that Padre Pio, even as a child,
05:05he sat on that stone and watched his friends play.
05:08And Padre Pio's thoughts, even when he was a child, were turned to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
05:14This is the house of Padre Pio's parents.
05:16In this room, little Francesco spends most of his days in solitude and prayer.
05:22What you see now is the church of Sant'Anna, where Padre Pio was baptized on May 26th.
05:281887, at 6 in the morning.
05:33And this is the road that leads from Pietrelcina to Piana Romana, a small hamlet where the first earthquake occurs
05:39mystical event in the life of Padre Pio.
05:42It's a very hot day, and Francis is absorbed in prayer near the hut built by his uncles.
05:47He shelters from the sun under a large gold leaf.
05:49What remains of the famous Piana Romana elm.
05:54Here his relatives had built him a hut and being in that hut,
05:59in the shade of this elm in September 1910, just one month after his ordination to the priesthood,
06:07he found on his body the stigmata of the crucified Jesus, those stigmata that we call the invisible stigmata.
06:18It is the sign of a faith that will never abandon him again.
06:21Francesco cannot immediately understand what those strong pains are that are taking hold of his hands, feet and back.
06:27cost.
06:28He does not immediately interpret them as signs of the passion and crucifixion of Christ.
06:34Padre Pio is ill, but no one can make an adequate diagnosis.
06:38He has high fevers, up to a temperature unimaginable for a human being, up to 47 degrees.
06:44He doesn't eat, every movement causes him severe pain, his life is entirely dedicated to suffering.
06:51and to the incarnation of a faith that becomes increasingly absolute and total.
06:55Padre Pio lived here for three years.
06:59When he returned to Pietrecina, now a theology student, he began writing his correspondence here.
07:07And here on the turret all those extraordinary things happened, for example the meetings or apparitions of Jesus, of the
07:19Madonna,
07:19the furious fights, even physical ones, with the devil.
07:24The devil who tempted Padre Pio didn't use the same method he uses with us.
07:29These things did nothing.
07:30Then the devil, to hinder the work of God in Padre Pio, to prevent him from becoming a saint, resorted to means
07:39physical, to heavy vehicles.
07:42Padre Pio himself then recounts in his correspondence that Jesus or the Madonna came.
07:48Sometimes Jesus would put him back to bed and Padre Pio would begin his day again.
07:54Padre Pio left Pietrecina definitively in 1918.
07:58He manages to carry out his plan, that is, to live despite his illness and suffering according to the rule
08:05of the Capuchin friars and enters the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo.
08:10And in San Giovanni Rotondo Padre Pio finally manages to live the Capuchin life intensely according to the imposed rule
08:18from the order chosen by him.
08:20But what does it mean to be a Capuchin friar and according to what rules should one order and organize one's life?
08:33The Capuchins were founded in 1528 as a reform of the Franciscan order, during the period of the Counter-Reformation.
08:55The Capuchins, in truth, arose in 1525, I said 1528 because in 1528 they received recognition from the
09:07Pope, they were financially approved.
09:10Their fundamental aim is to get closer to the sources of Franciscan poverty, which like every religious life is centred
09:22on the three fundamental ways, the evangelical counsels.
09:26That is, poverty, obedience and chastity.
09:36And these are the three fundamental moments of the rule of the Capuchin friars, a rule marked at every moment of the day,
09:42from the early hours of the morning with readings first and personal meditations afterwards.
09:47These are followed by Midday Prayer, the Rosary, Vespers and Mass.
09:54This is the convent of Morcone where Padre Pio entered at the age of 16, on January 6, 1903 and where
10:02he spends the entire period of his novitiate.
10:05Here he breaks the rule of obedience for the first and only time, refusing to eat and eating for 21
10:13days of Eucharist only.
10:17This too is a sign of what his later life will be and the choices that Padre Pio will make.
10:25in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo.
10:29And this is San Giovanni Rotondo, a town of about 30,000 inhabitants in the heart of Capitanata, in the province of
10:35Foggia.
10:36In recent years it has undergone uncontrolled development, both delicious and economical.
10:40What you see is Viale dei Cappuccini, entirely occupied by hotels, guesthouses, restaurants and religious works.
10:46This road leads to the house of relief from suffering, a hospital wanted and built by Padre Pio with the offerings
10:54of the faithful.
10:55Here, you see it. This is the sanctuary as it is today and this is what Padre Pio found at his
11:01I arrive.
11:01But let's enter the convent.
11:04These are the corridors of the cloister and this is the church where Padre Pio spent most of his time.
11:09time
11:10and where the salient event of his life occurred.
11:14And on September 20, 1918, Padre Pio received the visible stigmata, that is, the signs of the passion and crucifixion.
11:23of Christ.
11:26It was the morning of the 20th of last month.
11:29I was in the choir after the celebration of Holy Mass, when I was surprised by a rest, similar to a sweet sleep.
11:36All the internal and external senses, as well as the very faculties of the soul, were in an indescribable quiet.
11:42While all this was happening, I saw a mysterious character in front of me,
11:47similar to the one seen on the evening of August 5th, with this only difference.
11:52His hands, feet and side were dripping blood.
11:56The sight of it is terrifying.
11:58I couldn't tell you what I felt in that moment.
12:00I felt like I was dying and would have died if the Lord had not intervened to support my heart that was leaping from my chest.
12:06The sight of the figure withdrew, and I noticed that his hands and feet and side were pierced and dripping.
12:13blood.
12:14Imagine the agony I experienced then, and which I continue to experience almost every day.
12:21My Father, I am dying of the torment or confusion that I feel in the depths of my soul.
12:27Bless me always, your most affectionate Padre Pio.
12:34With these words, Padre Pio confesses his secret to the world.
12:39He does so discreetly, as required by the rule of his order, which he himself accepted from the very first moment.
12:45Secretum regis hides goodness est.
12:47It is a good thing to keep the sovereign's secret, the rule states.
12:52And Padre Pio hides his wounds under rough gloves and woolen socks.
12:57But the news spreads quickly.
12:59Some newspapers are starting to write about the humble friar of Gargano, about that friar who prays and bleeds closed in his
13:06cell.
13:07People are starting to love him, they want to see him, touch him, feel him up close.
13:12An ever-increasing number of faithful are arriving in San Giovanni Rotondo on pilgrimage from all over Italy.
13:17They are often sick, tired, poor.
13:19They spend the night outside on the steps of the church.
13:22They wait for Padre Pio to finish his prayers and celebrate Mass.
13:26And as time goes by they become more and more numerous.
13:30San Giovanni Rotondo is overrun by the faithful.
13:33And at this point Padre Pio is no longer just a humble and unknown friar, but he also becomes a problem.
13:41On June 9, 1919, the prefect of Capitanata, Dr. Camillo De Fabrizis,
13:49sends to the Ministry of the Interior a detailed report that you see in the foreground,
13:54report which has as its object the alleged miracles of a minor friar,
13:58observants of the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo.
14:01It is the first official document that speaks of Padre Pio's stigmata.
14:06But these strange wounds on the friar's body that retrace the passion of Christ
14:12They are not only in official documents, but also in eyewitness accounts.
14:19One of these is Father Alberto da Apolito,
14:23who met Padre Pio at the age of 9 and was with him almost until his death
14:31Padre Pio.
14:51But for Padre Pio the stigmata are not the only concrete testimony of a faith lived firsthand.
15:00and above all they are not the only way to communicate with the outside world,
15:05to tell others, the faithful, as well as his brothers, the intensity of his faith.
15:12Here, this photo of Padre Pio seems to sum up the mystery of his life,
15:17a mystery entirely enclosed in this modest cell which appears to us as it was originally,
15:22remained frozen since the day of his death and preserved with enormous love and respect
15:27from a brother of Padre Pio, a modest friar from Pietrelcina.
15:35When one evening, one day you put your vegetables in the garden, you find a shirt, a shirt stained with blood,
15:42at the shoulder, at the capicola.
15:44And I told him, Padre Pio, if you would have cooked your shoulder, I would have cooked it for you and I would have given my testimony.
15:49It will be at night, at 5 in the morning, a pain in the shoulder, so sharp, so sharp,
15:57like when someone scrapes a bone with a knife.
16:01Such a strong voice, if I have suffered so.
16:05And lots of perfume.
16:10Here, and this perfume that Fra Modestine from Pietrelcina talks about
16:15It is the scent of grace that Padre Pio gave to everyone, religious and lay people, everyone talks about it.
16:22And among these lay people there are also direct witnesses of the stigmata of Padre Pio,
16:27like Ippolito Lucchesi, a spiritual son of Padre Pio.
16:32I served my father for no less than 70-80 months.
16:38As he raised his hands like that, I saw him get punctured more than once.
16:42Part of it, you could see it from the middle, you could see it, not exactly, but you could see the light on the other side.
16:50Kissing her, I saw it, the hole was not visible doing that,
16:54but it was all brown, all a matter of clotted blood,
16:59both on the side and on the other, because when you kiss your father's hand,
17:03we kissed here and then we also turned around, we also kissed on the other side.
17:09I have never seen what it cost, very few have seen it.
17:14I think only doctors are lay, the attending physician, I think, even those before,
17:21when the trial took place at the beginning, when the stigmata were, were not,
17:25they sealed them, they made them of all colors.
17:29And in fact they really did all sorts of things to Padre Pio,
17:33as Ippolito Lucchesi told us, both from a religious and a medical point of view.
17:40But what is most striking is that today we could define a sort of therapeutic obstinacy,
17:48that is, a desperate attempt to heal those wounds on the friar's body at all costs.
17:57Between May 15 and July 15, 1920, three illustrious clinicians visited Padre Pio's cell.
18:03looking for proof or an explanation for those wounds on the friar's body
18:09which in all respects recall the passion of Christ.
18:12The first to visit it was Professor Luigi Romanelli, followed immediately after by Professor Amico Bignani.
18:19Both professors almost immediately declare themselves incapable of providing an explanation.
18:25Lastly, Professor Giorgio Festa visits Padre Pio,
18:29who subjects the friar to a series of analyses and experiments, all very painful,
18:35such as the wound healing test.
18:38Padre Pio is not an impostor.
18:41This is the only thing that medical science and Professor Festa can ascertain.
18:47But this is not enough for the ecclesiastical hierarchies.
18:51At this point it is a Franciscan who decides to deal directly with the story of Padre Pio
18:57and Father Agostino Gemelli who goes to San Giovanni Rotondo to see with his own eyes the stigmata of
19:05Padre Pio.
19:06But Father Gemelli does not have the Pope's authorization with him,
19:11the only one who can force Padre Pio to show his wounds.
19:15And then the friar refuses.
19:17At this point Father Gemelli returned to Rome without having been able to carry out the verification he desired.
19:24This fact transforms him into an opponent, an enemy of Padre Pio.
19:28He considers him an impostor and pushes for his suspension to Divinis, who duly arrives.
19:36Enrico Malatesta, journalist, writer, and author of the latest book on Padre Pio, entitled In the Name of the Father.
19:43Malatesta is one of the greatest experts on the life of the friar from Gargano.
19:47Here, Malatesta.
19:47But was Padre Pio's persecution a real one?
19:51Yes, indeed yes.
19:52It was a real persecution, even more so because beyond the persecution itself
19:56This serious accusation is made by Father Gemelli,
20:01accusation that will then lead the Holy Office not to believe only the rumours that were circulating,
20:08but above all to the accusations of Father Gemelli.
20:10Now, who sent the doctors we talked about to Padre Pio to analyze his wounds?
20:17Who was sent?
20:18The first doctor, Romanelli, was sent by the Holy See, specifically by the Holy Office.
20:27Amico Bignami is sent by the Pope, while Giorgio Festa is sent by the Capuchin Order.
20:33Here, but what did Father Gemelli actually do when he returned to Rome after the visit to Father
20:39Pious?
20:40Well, he put his pressure on the Holy Office.
20:42Obviously he was keen on the initial position he had taken,
20:46that is, it was not possible for a friar to refuse him,
20:50a great charismatic personality of the Jesuit world, to show him the stigmata.
20:55So, at this point the position of the Church of Rome becomes very difficult.
21:01and it is not limited to medical and scientific investigations only.
21:07On May 31, 1923, the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office denied the supernatural nature of Padre Pio's stigmata.
21:16He considers them normal administration, but this is not the only decree of the Holy Office against Padre Pio
21:21and it is not even the harshest act of the official Church against the friar.
21:26On this altar, Padre Pio celebrated Holy Mass during the two years of segregation,
21:33from June 11, 1931 until July 16, 1933, because he was given the order not to celebrate outside the
21:47people
21:47and therefore also not to confess.
21:51This order came from Rome, from the Roman congregations, for precautionary reasons.
22:02Certainly the order was not good, it was a kind of punishment, a limitation of Padre Pio.
22:13But on July 16, 1933, the decrees of the Holy Office against Padre Pio were repealed.
22:23It is the first time in the history of the Church that the Holy Office has reversed a decision it had made.
22:29And Padre Pio emerges from the storm, but another storm is about to hit him.
22:36And on January 9, 1946, Padre Pio decides to start the construction of an efficient and
22:44modern.
22:45It is the first stone of what will be the house of relief from suffering.
22:50But it is also the beginning of a rain of money that comes from the offerings,
22:54from donations from the faithful and the spiritual children of Padre Pio.
22:58On April 4, 1957, Pope Pius XII decided to free Padre Pio from the vow of poverty.
23:07So Padre Pio himself will be able to manage the ever-increasing donations.
23:13Meanwhile, many other Capuchins have independently decided to break the vow of poverty.
23:20and became part of a circle of speculation and usury led by the so-called banker of God,
23:28Gian Battista Giuffrè.
23:30He is the architect of a gigantic scam with fabulous interest rates and easy profits.
23:37Many dioceses erect fabulous buildings by banking on the money of the so-called celestial bankrupt.
23:45Or rather, on the interest accrued on the sums of the faithful's offerings.
23:50But all this is just a sand castle that falls in 1959 and leaves behind many wounded.
23:59excellent,
24:00especially in Padua and San Giovanni Rotondo.
24:16Saints are a nuisance when alive and are so useful when dead because a little pig here,
24:23a little piece of cloth inside and the other part is created all badly.
24:27When the saints are alive, the saints are our conscience, they are the conscience of the Church,
24:32they are, and then they are annoying, they harm, and so Pateria could also be annoying.
24:38There was a terrible moment that I suffered, I suffered because it seemed absurd to me
24:47that men of the Church could be so cruel towards a poor creature.
24:56Humanly I saw his tears, humanly I felt all his pain,
25:02I heard this.
25:03They placed hidden microphones in the places where he spoke,
25:06he wants him not to have betrayed himself.
25:07and more that he felt betrayed.
25:11And he knew it and he said, well, we couldn't have a better fate.
25:17than that of our Lord.
25:19The treatment was part of, it entered into the rules of the game.
25:23Here is Malattesa, in his book In the Name of the Father he talks at length about this Giuffre case.
25:30Now, I would like to know, when did this second intricate episode in Father Piero's life end?
25:36So the episode ends in 1961, one might say, but after troubled events
25:42Padre Pio suffered, one could say, a sort of second persecution
25:47let's say distorted by the story
25:49but brought on the basis of what?
25:52Of a process due to the many faithful he had around him.
25:56That is, that wave of faith, that immense number of believers
26:01that left for all parts of the world
26:03they brought Padre Pio to trial only because?
26:06Because they brought money, they brought cash, that money that perhaps would have
26:10and above all the Giuffre case was resolved.
26:12So, who actually betrayed Padre Pio in the Giuffre case?
26:18Some priests of the Church, some Capuchins, some priests of the secular clergy.
26:25Padre Pio was betrayed above all not so much as in his person
26:30but how much in the teaching he had given.
26:32That is, Padre Pio had his rule of poverty suspended
26:37to be able to build the house of relief from suffering
26:40but it was essentially the total basis of his existence.
26:45Poverty, Saint Francis, the Rule of Saint Francis.
26:47So some priests who in the meantime, priests, Capuchins, especially Capuchins
26:51they had allowed themselves to be caught up in this Giuffredian game, let's call it that,
26:56they had lost track of the economic aspect of managing the Church
27:02and the business aspect.
27:03And he basically didn't lend himself to covering it up.
27:06No, no, absolutely not.
27:07When he was asked to give the cash he had for the house he was relieved.
27:11Padre Pio flatly refused.
27:13There is charity money and it goes to charitable works.
27:15Well, but Padre Pio's life is obviously not only linked to scandalous events.
27:22unclear of this kind, but above all its mystery is very unearthly.
27:30I came across a very strange fact.
27:32He was hit by waves of a strange scent, but everywhere.
27:38And then I thought I was like that, maybe a form of obsession, an olfactory obsession.
27:49I happened to be at the theater singing to Carlo Drabucco and once I told him and he kept quiet.
27:57Then the second time, then the third time, I remember it was at the Quirino theatre and he said
28:01but smell this scent.
28:03And then Carlo Drabucco, who was the people's critic,
28:05but have you ever heard of a certain friar called Padre Pio?
28:09And Trabucco told me about this friar with the stigmata and I replied
28:13but this reminds me of the Middle Ages.
28:17And a few months passed, then I went to the beer hall with my wife,
28:22with my first child, in Francavita a mare.
28:27And I had to go to the post office for, it was right after the war,
28:32it was really all in ruins, it was a post office to send something,
28:36I don't know what.
28:37And this post office was on the first floor, there were stairs,
28:40these stairs were dirty because mothers brought their children,
28:44the children peed in the corners, a really disgusting thing,
28:46a stench that could no longer be tolerated.
28:48Approximately my wife says to me, do you smell this perfume?
28:52And I felt it.
28:54I asked her, do you feel it too?
28:57Yes, I hear it too, but what is it?
28:59And I told him, you know Trabucco told me this.
29:02And my wife very instinctively said, well then why don't we go?
29:07And when I found myself in front of Padre Pio, he welcomed me with open arms saying,
29:13oh finally, it took a long time to get you there.
29:18And then he discovered that the source of this call was him,
29:24because one day he said to him, but Father, how come I don't smell that perfume anymore?
29:32And he said to me, why did you grow up?
29:35You don't need it anymore.
29:37Once again, therefore, the protagonist is the perfume,
29:40that perfume that Fra Modestino had already told us about
29:43and which all those who claim to have been there talk about.
29:47miracles performed by Padre Pio.
29:49This evening we would like to present you with two direct testimonies,
29:54two incredible cases of survival,
29:57and this is precisely the miraculous fact, let's say,
30:00of survival despite the final verdict of medical science.
30:06The first case is that of Luigina Suppo, a 60-year-old woman,
30:10who on March 1, 1982 has a paralysis of the lower limbs,
30:16On April 20 of the same year she underwent surgery for a tumor.
30:21Cobalt therapy begins in early May,
30:25the CT scan you see confirms the tumor,
30:30CT scan performed at the Fornaca Clinic in Turin,
30:32in short this woman has not,
30:36in fact his backbone is practically mashed,
30:40and yet he continues to walk and work.
30:45According to medical science, this is a completely inexplicable condition.
30:51Seven months I was in pain, nobody understood,
30:54very strong pain in the vertebrae, ribs, back,
30:59and then I had paralysis on March 1st 1982,
31:03half paralyzed, from the waist down, the legs were dead,
31:07they admitted me to Turin, the Molinette,
31:11and after 20 days I discovered I was sick.
31:14I had surgery on April 20th,
31:19Fasano operated on me,
31:20Professor Fasano.
31:21They made me cobalt,
31:22and after the operation I did a lot of cobalt,
31:24then they discharged me because there was nothing else to do.
31:28And then they sent me up to the hermitage of Lanzo,
31:30to die what can one say,
31:32and when I was up there they gave me the truth.
31:34They operated on me there in April,
31:35and on September 14th they gave me the truth.
31:39I passed the chaplain,
31:40I saw so destroyed,
31:42and we ask Padre Pio for a miracle.
31:43I wanted to ask my Turin saints,
31:45because I thought not,
31:46you can't do such a great miracle for me,
31:47it's not possible,
31:48how to give me back my life.
31:49I started to have,
31:51I did physiotherapy,
31:54I began to see that my legs were moving on their own,
31:56and instead they don't explain it.
31:58Ah, when I went out,
32:00that I was already starting to walk,
32:01first with the crosses,
32:02then with the sticks,
32:03I wore the iron corset,
32:04with the large iron bust,
32:05an alloy between steel and iron,
32:08but they wanted it that way,
32:08but also that his back became thicker.
32:10And then one time,
32:10you know I was there,
32:13on that statue there,
32:14behind the convent,
32:15that I told Padre Pio,
32:16you understand,
32:16you don't understand anything,
32:17because you are made of bronze,
32:19you don't know how hard it is to walk
32:20with this iron bust.
32:23And from there you can see,
32:24I would really say that from that time on
32:27I took off the brace after a while.
32:28I made the cork twice more,
32:30once to vote,
32:32when I saw my tests,
32:33they are impressed,
32:34it doesn't move,
32:34for goodness sake,
32:35here, there, there,
32:35and they attacked me,
32:37bone stitigraphy,
32:38several stories,
32:39and it turns out that evil exists.
32:41I can't even explain it
32:42why am I here,
32:43I'm alive,
32:43and everything goes like this,
32:45because I had to die,
32:46I really had to die.
32:48Here you are,
32:49the second case,
32:50this is also incredible,
32:51it's the engineer's
32:52Attilio Mazzoni.
32:56At that time,
32:56in 1977,
32:58at the end of August,
33:00that I was in the mountains,
33:01I noticed that I had some bleeding
33:05from the mouth of the phlegm
33:07with blood.
33:08My doctor told me
33:09which was probably meant to be
33:11a large lung abscess.
33:14I wasn't told anything,
33:16but to my wife,
33:18to a person who accompanied us,
33:19it was said that I definitely had
33:24lung cancer
33:27and that certainly
33:30I was inoperable.
33:32Professor Pistolesi
33:34maybe he says
33:34that could be felt
33:36from this friend of mine,
33:37Professor Besa,
33:38if he feels like operating on him.
33:42When we went to her in Verona,
33:43all the tests were done,
33:45including the CT scan.
33:47Of course the DIA
33:48it wasn't always in Fausta.
33:51Before going to Verona,
33:52however,
33:53since I had known
33:54his father Pio in 1963,
33:59I want to go to my father's grave
34:02to pray to her,
34:03to recommend me
34:03for him to help me.
34:06Finally one evening
34:07Professor Pistolesi
34:09he said
34:09that tomorrow morning the operation will take place.
34:11At that moment
34:12I smelled a great perfume,
34:15I don't know if it was that
34:16of father son,
34:17the fact is that I felt it
34:18and all the others
34:19they didn't hear it.
34:21the upper lobe was removed
34:25of the right lung,
34:27it was also taken away from me
34:28the recurrent nerve,
34:30the one who commands
34:31the vocal cords,
34:33because it was already full
34:35of metastases.
34:37For the professor,
34:39I took the maximum shot,
34:42but it is full of metastases.
34:44the prognosis was for two more,
34:46maybe one or two months to live.
34:48There and then
34:49I felt pretty good,
34:51In short,
34:53I kept doing
34:54the inhalations
34:55with cortisone
34:57which had been prescribed to me.
35:00But when there was cortisone,
35:02I had just for,
35:05instead of recovering
35:07to function
35:08the adrenals,
35:09and if they didn't take me back
35:11to function,
35:12so practically
35:13I found myself
35:15without more
35:15a bit of strength.
35:17They stimulated me
35:18to protect
35:18and slowly slowly
35:19I recovered a little bit
35:20to recover,
35:22but without a voice,
35:24because the nerve was removed
35:26recurring,
35:27the voice
35:27I absolutely didn't have it.
35:29A Thursday
35:32I had stared at myself
35:33an appointment
35:34with a priest
35:36to whom Padre Pio
35:38had given,
35:40let's say so,
35:41mandate
35:41to care for the sick.
35:45He placed his hands on me
35:46on my sick part.
35:49This happened on Thursday
35:50and Saturday morning
35:51the voice
35:52it was thanks to the North,
35:53completely.
35:54And since then
35:55it has always been
35:56a crescendo,
35:57always a continuous
35:58improvement.
36:00These are the first two testimonies
36:02that we presented to you.
36:04The third testimony
36:05it's the most sensational.
36:07It's the most sensational
36:08because it directly involves
36:10Carol Voitila,
36:11the current pontiff,
36:12John Paul II.
36:14Voitila indeed
36:15in November 62
36:17he was Archbishop of Krakow
36:19and at that time
36:20becomes aware
36:22of the case
36:22of a teacher
36:24forty-year-old,
36:25mother of four children,
36:26suffering from cancer
36:28in the throat.
36:28Voitila decide
36:30to intervene,
36:31writes to Padre Pio
36:32a first time
36:34to ask
36:35the intervention
36:36and then
36:37he writes
36:37a second time
36:39to thank him
36:40of the miracle
36:41obtained.
36:43These
36:43that now
36:44you will see
36:45they are the two letters
36:46autographs
36:47by John
36:48Paul II.
36:49The original text
36:51of this letter
36:51it's in Latin,
36:53what you will hear
36:54it's the translation
36:55Italian.
37:00Venerable Father,
37:01please address
37:02a prayer
37:03for a certain lady
37:0440 years old,
37:05mother of four girls
37:06and original
37:07from Krakow,
37:08Poland.
37:09During the last war
37:10she was a prisoner
37:11in a concentration camp
37:12in Germany,
37:14now pour
37:14in very serious condition
37:15health hazard
37:16and also of life
37:17due to cancer.
37:18because God
37:20prove to her
37:21and his family
37:21his mercy
37:22pray for intercession
37:24of the Blessed Virgin.
37:26Fraternally in Christ
37:28your Karol Wojtyla
37:29vicar capitular
37:31from Krakow,
37:32Poland.
37:37Venerated Father,
37:39the woman who lives
37:40in Poland,
37:41in Krakow,
37:42mother of four girls,
37:44on November 21st
37:45before the operation
37:46surgical
37:47he bought back
37:48instantly
37:49health.
37:50Let us give thanks to God.
37:53To you,
37:54Venerated Father,
37:55I present my gratitude
37:56along with that
37:58of the woman,
37:58of her husband
37:59and of the whole family.
38:01In Christ,
38:02Karol Wojtyla,
38:03vicar capitular
38:04from Krakow.
38:07These letters,
38:08we repeat it
38:09once again,
38:10are dated respectively
38:12November 17, 1962
38:14and November 28, 1962
38:17they bear the autograph signature,
38:18you saw it,
38:19of the future pontiff
38:20John Paul II.
38:22Anyway,
38:23Padre Pio dies
38:24September 23rd
38:26of 1968.
38:32Some time before
38:33of death,
38:34someone hears it
38:35to mutter
38:35and I can't take it anymore.
38:40And these are
38:42his funeral.
38:43San Giovanni Rotondo
38:44it is invaded by the crowd.
38:46The general emotion.
38:48You see,
38:49see Padre Pio
38:51which is accompanied
38:53in procession
38:55for his last journey.
39:13And this is the current corridor
39:16set up by the Capuchin friars
39:18to remember life
39:20of the stigmatized
39:22of the Gargano.
39:23Here you can find them
39:25the stages that we too
39:26we retraced
39:27in the story of his life,
39:29of the life of Padre Pio.
39:55Until the last stage,
39:57no less important,
39:58the moment when
39:59Carol Voitila,
40:01who became Pope John Paul II,
40:04May 23, 1987,
40:07at 8pm,
40:09as shown on the license plate
40:10what do you see,
40:11he kneels down
40:12on the grave
40:13of Padre Pio.
40:15It's the first time
40:16that a Pope
40:17he goes to pray
40:18on the grave
40:19of a simple Cappuccino.
40:21But at this point
40:23we still want
40:24provide you with proof
40:25concrete
40:26of the extraordinary
40:28of this Padre Pio.
40:30And it's a circumstance
40:32which concerns once again
40:34the current pontiff
40:35and that was told to us
40:37by Father Alberto D'Apolito.
40:39One day
40:42the scientist Medi,
40:44Medi who is dead,
40:46with Mrs. Bosco
40:47they frequented
40:48the wisdom of Rome.
40:51They meet
40:52in this
40:54young second-rate
40:55Polish,
40:56Voitila,
40:57who heard people talking
40:59of Padre Pio.
41:00Then he says,
41:01I would like to know him,
41:02the scientist Medi,
41:04Mrs. Boschi,
41:06and they notified Voitila.
41:07and they came to San Giornale Conte.
41:10They went to the cell
41:11by Padre Pio
41:11And
41:13they knocked.
41:14Padre Pio
41:15he was inside
41:16cell number 5,
41:17leave the cell,
41:19found Medi
41:20and Voitila,
41:22Voitila.
41:23Then he said,
41:24but I would like to confess,
41:26Father can hear my confession.
41:28And so,
41:29he returned
41:29and went to the cell.
41:30After the confession
41:31he's coming out again.
41:33And so
41:35I greet you
41:36from the blessing
41:36health
41:37have a good trip.
41:38Those two
41:38they came out,
41:40they said,
41:41we did everything,
41:43Now we can leave.
41:45But they saw
41:46the face of Voitila.
41:49He says,
41:49why is he sad?
41:51At that time,
41:52the scientist Medi
41:53he replied,
41:54he says,
41:54I don't know if
41:55Padre Pio
41:55he pronounced
41:56some strange words.
41:58What words?
41:59And the words
42:00they said,
42:00I would be Pope
42:01in the violence of blood,
42:03I will pray for you.
42:04so he said.
42:05At that time,
42:06Mary said,
42:06Yes,
42:07so he said,
42:07I would like to hear it,
42:08so he said.
42:09And this story
42:10incredible
42:11that we told you,
42:12the story of Padre Pio,
42:14ends as
42:15all the faithful
42:16and devotees
42:17by Padre Pio
42:17they hoped
42:18and they had
42:19always dreamed of.
42:20June 16th
42:20of 2002
42:22in a square
42:23Saint Peter
42:23crowded
42:24of the faithful
42:26John Paul II
42:27he proclaimed
42:28Holy Father Pio
42:30from Pietralcina
42:31and this then
42:32to close
42:33they are the images
42:34of that extraordinary one
42:35party.
42:37The Honour
42:43of the Holy Trinity
42:46for the exaltation
42:51of the Catholic faith
42:54and the increase
42:56of Christian life
42:59with the authority
43:01of our Lord
43:02Jesus Christ
43:04of the Holy Apostles
43:06Peter and Paul
43:08and ours
43:09nature
43:11of liberation
43:12and precavity
43:14after having long
43:16reflected
43:17invoked several times
43:19divine help
43:23and listened
43:25the opinion
43:27of many
43:27our brothers
43:28in the Episcopate
43:30we declare
43:32and we define
43:33Holy
43:34Blessed Pio
43:36from Pietralcina
43:37and we sign it up
43:39in the Roll of Saints
43:51and we sign it up
44:10and stable
44:11and we establish
44:12that throughout the Church
44:14Let him be
44:15devoutly
44:17honored
44:18among the Saints
44:19throughout the Church
44:20and we sign it up
44:40and we sign it up
44:48and we sign it up
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