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Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who...
Nov 28, 2011 · The Blog miracles Catholic Church Culture. Did Padre Pio Fake His Stigmata Wounds? Was Padre Pio a divinely inspired holy man with supernatural powers? No mere journalist can presume to say. Did he create his own wounds for 60 plus years using carbolic acid? Not likely. By Richard Schiffman, Contributor. Journalist. Nov 28, 2011, 05:26 PM EST.
Sep 23, 2022 · During his life and after his death, these expressions of Padre Pio’s holiness have been debated. Believers say that in addition to receiving the stigmata, Padre Pio prophesied that...
Sep 18, 2018 · Opinion. Was St Padre Pio an incarnation of Jesus or a fraud? Rite&Reason: Canonised in 2002, much loved saint died 50 years ago this week. Expand. The stigmata, corresponding to Christ’s...
Jul 13, 2021 · Philip Kosloski - published on 07/13/21. St. Padre Pio was banned from celebrating Mass publicly or even giving spiritual direction to his followers. Many were skeptical of Padre Pio’s...
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Sep 22, 2008 · In an article published by the L’Osservatore Romano, Francesco Castelli, a biographer of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, has revealed details of the first investigation in 1921 by the Holy Office—now the...
Oct 26, 2007 · But a new book argues that Pio faked his stigmata: a book called Padre Pio and the Italy of the 19th Century, by historian Sergio Luzzatto says the wounds were self-created using carbolic acid and he claims to have found documentary evidence to prove it in the Vatican's secret archives.
