Padre Pio

Three Doctors Examined Padre Pio’s Stigmata. They Disagreed.

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Padre Pio in his cell with bandaged hands held out, beside the words What doctors wrote

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

The Padre Pio Prophecy That Was a Forgery

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The Letter That Wasn’t His In 1950, a letter began circulating across Catholic Europe. It claimed that Padre Pio, the famous stigmatist friar, had predicted three days of total darkness were coming — a punishment so severe that no artificial light would work except one specific kind of candle. Padre Pio denied writing a single … Read more