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Sergio luzzatto padre pio6/26/2023 “For disinfecting syringes,” don’t you know. Maria Di Vito, an admitted admirer of Pio, claimed that in 1919 she spent a month with him in San Giovanni Rotondo, where he asked her to secretly have a bottle of pure carbolic acid refilled. It seems that documents have been discovered that were collected from a pharmacist acquaintance of the visibly stigmatisized Padre. Others have invisible stigmata they suffer for no outward and visible reason(My reaction to the invisible kind: How convenient.!) Some stigmata are visible– wounds on the hands, feet, back, or rib area that can be seen and cause real suffering in those who manifest them, however they are manifested. He died in 1968 and was elevated to the status Saint in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who is now on his own fast track to Beatification. Throughout his life as a priest, beginning in 1911, Padre Pio exhibited stigmata, simulations of the wounds suffered by Jesus on his hands and feet. (The man was bleeding as he served the Host!) According to a new book- The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by historian Sergio Luzzatto- the “most popular Saint” in Italy, and one of the most popular in the world, might have faked his famous piety.
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