Pio, a former monk who died in 1968 aged 81, wore gloves because his hands bled constantly for 50 years in what were revered as stigmata wounds. He became Italy's most loved saint after he was ...

Father John Paul Mary has witnessed spiritual growth and healing from praying with people with the saint’s relics. ‘The saints are meant to be our friends,’ he emphasizes. The body of St. Pio of ...

The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on Monday was filled with believers who came to kneel before the relics of St. Pio, the controversial Italian cleric who claimed to bear the ...

One of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. His tomb can be found in the ...

ROME — Known around the globe as simply “Padre Pio,” Saint Pio of Pietrelcina has been called one of the “most active” saints in the Church, and continues to work miracles for those who pray through ...

Since 90 percent of Italians are Catholic, a writer might be wary of publishing a scrupulously researched takedown of a popular Italian saint. Yet with “Padre Pio” — the English translation of an ...

The heart of St. Padre Pio will be on display in Massachusetts this week, marking the first time the religious relic has ever left its home in Italy.The Sun reports that the heart will be first made ...

PITTSBURGH -- Relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, will be at St. Paul Cathedral in the city's Oakland section on Tuesday. The relics include a glove he used to cover his ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — To celebrate the 19th anniversary of St. Padre Pio’s canonization, members of the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society will host an in-person Procession and Mass to mark his Feast Day, ...