Between 1919 and 1920, three doctors examined the stigmata of Padre Pio: the wounds in his hands, his feet and his side. They did not agree. Two wrote that science could not explain them. The third called them self-produced by suggestion, and said they were kept up with iodine. By his death in 1968, the … Read more
For another story of a faithful woman whose prayers mattered more than anyone knew, read the forgotten saint who saved thousands with prayer. If you have ever buried someone you would have died for, you already know this woman. Saint Zélie Martin buried four of her children: two baby boys, a daughter of five, and … Read more
Another story of the power of intercessory prayer: the forgotten saint who saved thousands with prayer. She is famous for a number Augustine never wrote In a rented room at Ostia, the port of Rome, a woman of 56 lay dying a long way from the country where she was born. She told her two … Read more
How a wealthy skeptic’s twenty-minute encounter with the Virgin Mary in a Roman churchtransformed him from fierce opponent to devoted priest In the bustling streets of nineteenth-century Rome, countless visitors wandered through ancientchurches as mere tourists, admiring art and architecture with detached curiosity. But on Januarytwentieth, eighteen forty-two, one such visitor experienced something that would … Read more
