MEDAL OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA ( PADRE PIO ) - MADE IN HIGH RELIEF WITH CHAIN Padre Pio, born Francesco Forgione, was an Italian presbyter, of the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor; the Catholic Church venerates him as a saint and celebrates his liturgical memory on September 23, the anniversary of his death. Birth: Pietrelcina, May 25, 1887 - Death: San Giovanni Rotondo, September 23, 1968 - Venerated by: Catholic Church Beatification: Vatican City, May 2, 1999 by Pope John Paul II - Canonization: Vatican City, June 16, 2002 by Pope John Paul II - Main Shrine: Shrine of San Pio da Pietrelcina, San Giovanni Rotondo - Feast day: 23 September Patron of: Civil protection volunteers, Catholic adolescents Miracles Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Among the miraculous signs attributed to him are the "stigmata " which would bring for 57 years in different phases (on and off from 1910 to 1917, and then continuously from September 20, 1918 until most of 1968), the gift of bilocation, prophecy, reading hearts (ability to read in people's hearts, a charisma known as cardiognosis) and the perception, by the faithful, of intense floral scents of various types (violets, jasmine, lily of the valley, roses, etc.) which would appear ati as a sign of his presence even after his death. The charisma of reading hearts was manifested above all during confessions (Padre Pio confessed even for eighteen hours a day and it is estimated that, in fifty years, he confessed about six hundred thousand people): countless are the testimonies of those who discovered that the friar knew in advance the sins that were about to be confessed to him. Among the many miracles attributed to him is that of the healing of the little Matteo Pio Colella of San Giovanni Rotondo, on whom the canonical process was celebrated which then led to his elevation to the altars of San Pio. Ulteriori informazioni su questo testo di origine Per avere ulteriori informazioni sulla traduzione è necessario il testo di origine Invia comm