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Padre Pio da Pietrelcina is probably one of the most emblematic figures in the history of modern Christianity. The devotion reserved for him, even when he was still alive, assumed impressive dimensions after his death. Thanks to his fame as a thaumaturge, who went beyond his bodily death, pushing thousands of suffering people to visit every year the places that have seen him live and practice, first of all, the Sanctuary erected in San Giovanni Rotondo, in the province of Foggia, to whom this study is dedicated.
We have already spoken of Padre Pio on many occasions, dedicating articles to him that have tried to deepen various aspects of his surprising human and spiritual parable. In particular, in the article on Padre Pio and the order of the Capuchin Friars Minor we retraced the human and spiritual adventure of this man born and lived between two centuries, from his precocious religious vocation, favoured by the profound devotion of his mother, at the priestly service that began at the age of 23, at the visions and the stigmata, which the Friar received right in San Giovanni Rotondo, in the convent where Jesus himself had suggested that he stop, to take care of his frail health. The convent that once stood here and which housed the future saint became since then a destination for pilgrimages from all over the world, not only by the faithful and the sick but even by politicians and royalty from all over Europe. After the Second World War, a real ‘cult of the living saint’ will develop around the convent and the figure of Padre Pio, which has never stopped, and which following his death in 1968 and his canonization in 1999 and beatification in 2002 it increased more and more.
13 окт 2024
