As Pope Paul VI said shortly after Padre Pio’s death: “Look what fame he had, what a worldwide following gathered around him! But why? Because he was a philosopher? Because he was wise? Because he had resources at his disposal? No – because he said Mass humbly, heard confessions from dawn to dusk and was–it is not easy to say it–one who bore the wounds of our Lord. He was a man of prayer and suffering.”
We cannot forget that as Pio came to know Christ more and more, he began a outreach to the suffering poor through a hospital in San Giovanni Rotundo, which today has become a major medical treatment and research center – http://
“Through the study of books, one seeks God; by meditation one finds him” (Pio of Pietralcina).
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