Memorial
Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
- Feast day
- September 23
- Patron of
- civil defense volunteers
- Origin
- Italian
Life
Padre Pio was a Capuchin friar who bore the stigmata for fifty years. He was known for his gifts of healing, bilocation, and reading souls, and spent long hours hearing confessions.
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