**An Extraordinary Story About a Saint of Our Time**

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	• Padre Pio the Stigmatist Charles Mortimer Carty Tan Books & Publishers, 1989 - 311 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Holy Man of God, Thank You Padre Pio

This was an excellent book, Examples of many, many miracles, Many insights to the wisdom and knowledge of heaven. Wonderful book.

This is the MUST HAVE book.

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There are so many books about Padre Pio. THIS ONE is a must-have... it was one of the first written. And, because so, the stories and accounts of his life have not been filtered down, as so often happens over the years with numerous re-tellings.

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Amazing story of a very holy man

Padre Pio, one of the most renowned modern-day Blesseds, was a very holy man loved by many people. The charisms he was blessed with by the Holy Spirit are truly amazing to read about, including bilocation, the odor of sanctity, as well as his most famous gift, the stigmata. The accounts of miracles attributed to his intercession are unbelieveable, and I'm sure they're just a small amount of the great deeds this man has done. This man seems MORE than a man, forgetting to eat meals, having great favor with the Lord, and sometimes being invisible from others. He comforted many dying souls in their last agony. This is a great compilation of the wonders of the great Blessed Padre Pio.

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sensational / stylized

I have only read parts of this book, but the sections that I did read seemed somewhat sensational and dramatized. I much prefer Bernard C. Ruffin's biography of Padre Pio, which, to me, is more impartial and scholarly. Padre Pio's life is sensational enough; it does not need to be stylized like a drama to be gripping. Doing so only waters down the facts with unverifiable fiction, and lowers it to a human level. I might also add, there are no footnotes or references in this book, so everything must be accepted at face value.

**An Extraordinary Story About a Saint of Our Time**

Padre Pio was canonized St. Pio of Pietrelcina on June 16, 2002. There are many books written about him, and this is one of the best and most complete. He was a Capuchin friar born in southern Italy in 1887 and died in 1968. He bore the stigmata, the wounds of Christ, for 50 years. He also possessed other unusual qualities, such as bilocation, odor of perfume, the reading of hearts, miraculous cures, remarkable conversions and prophetic insight. Because of his ability to read hearts many people sought to confess their sins to him. Although he heard confessions for 12 to 14 hours a day, it was necessary to register 10 days in advance because so many people desired his spiritual direction.

I highly recommend this book and also "Stories of Padre Pio" by Madame Katharina Tangari.

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