Bosko

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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