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Padre Pio (1887-1968): A
Modern Miracle Worker
•Padre Pio was an Italian
priest (Father Pio)
of the Catholic Church
•He is perhaps the best
documented miracle worker
In Christian history
•There were thousands of
witnesses of his extraordinary
abilities over a 50 year long
Ministry
•He has since been canonized
(made a saint) and during
that process his life has been extensively researched,
adding to the reliability of his biography
Photos of Padre Pio
The miraculous abilities and
manifestations of Padre Pio
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The stigmata
Bilocation
Prophecy
Reading hearts
Healing
Levitation
Stigmata
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P. Pio writing to P. Benedetto little more than a
month afterwards: "It all happened in a flash.
While all this was taking place, I saw before me
a mysterious Person, similar to the one I had
seen on August 5th, differing only because His
hands, feet and side were dripping blood.
The sight of Him frightened me: what I felt at
that moment is indescribable. 'I thought I would
die, and would have died if the Lord hadn't
intervened and strengthened my heart which
was about to burst out of my chest.
The Person disappeared and I became aware
that my hands, feet and side were pierced and
were dripping with blood" (Ep., V. 1, no. 5 10, p.
1094)
Bilocation
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The Testimony of Padre Carmelo
Durante
‘For the good of souls, Our Lord
gave the Venerable Padre Pio of'
Pietrelcina many gifts, amongst
these the gift of bilocation, which
enables a person to be present in
two places at the same time.’
Bilocation
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“My mother came from Foggia and was one of the
Father Pio’s first spiritual daughters. She had asked
Father Pio “to convert and protect my father”. In April
1945 my father was condemned to be executed by
firing squad. He was in front of the platoon when he
suddenly saw father Pio appear in front of him to
protect him.
The commander of the platoon gave the order to fire
but no shots were fired from the rifles that were
pointed at him. The seven members of the platoon
and their commander, astonished, checked their
rifles but they didn’t find any problem. So the platoon
again pointed their rifles at my father and the
commander ordered his soldiers to shoot again, but
for a second time the rifles did not work. This
mysterious and inexplicable occurrence stopped his
execution.
Bilocation
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Afterward my father was pardoned due to
having been awarded a medal during the war;
moreover he was disabled in action during the
war. After my father returned home, he
converted to Catholicism, receiving the
sacraments at San Giovanni Rotondo, where he
had gone to thank Father Pio. In this way my
mother obtained the miracles she had always
asked from Father Pio: “her husband’s
conversion!”
Bilocation
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An Italian General of the Army, called Cadorna, felt in
such condition of depression after the defeat of Caporetto,
that he was contemplating suicide. One evening he went
to his room and he commanded his orderly not to allow
anybody to come in. He took his gun from a drawer and
pointed the gun at his head, but suddenly he heard a
voice: “Oh General, why do you want to do such stupid
thing?” The sudden voice and the appearance of a
mysterious Friar (who then vanished) shocked the general
change his mind.
He wondered how it was possible that a Friar had entered
his room. He asked for explanations from his orderly but
he answered he had seen nobody going into his room.
Some years later, the General read in a newspaper of a
Friar that worked miracles in the Gargano area. He
secretly went there but he was astonished when father Pio
said to him: “Hello General, you ran a great risk that
evening, didn’t you?
Prophecy
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Padre Pio’s prophetic spirit as told by Padre Carmelo,
who was Superior of the Convent of St. Giovanni
Rotondo, is contained in this testimony: “During the last
World War, we spoke of the war every day and of the
uproarious military victories of Germany on all the fronts of
battle. I remember one morning I was in the little parlor of
the convent, and I read in a newspaper the news that the
German troops were moving by now in the direction of
Moscow.
For me, it was important news; in fact, I saw in that news
that the war would end with the final victory of Germany.
Going out in the corridor, I met Padre Pio, and gladly I told
him shouting: “Father, the war is ended! Germany has
won!” -
Prophecy
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“Who has told you it?” asked Padre Pio. - “Father, the
newspaper,” I answered. - And Padre Pio said: “Germany
has won the war? Keep in your mind that Germany, this
time, will lose the war, worse than the last time!
Remember it! “.
I told him: “Father, the Germans are already near
Moscow.” He added: “Remember what I have told you!” I said: “But, if Germany loses the war, Italy will lose the
war as well!“ - And, he emphatically answered me: “We
will see if together they will end the war.” I didn’t understand those words, taking into account the
alliance of Italy and Germany, but the words became clear
the following year after the armistice with the English and
Americans of September 8, 1943, and the Italian
declaration of war against Germany.
Healing
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A lady said: “In 1954, my father, who was a
railway-man, fell ill with a strange disease which
immobilized his legs. He was forty-seven years
old at the time. He was treated by a lot of
doctors without any success and after
approximately two years of treatment my father
was going to have to retire from his work.
Since the situation got worse, my uncle
suggested my father to go to San Giovanni
Rotondo where a friar had been living to whom
God had given a lot of gifts.
Healing
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So my father arrived to San Giovanni Rotondo
with my uncle’s help, facing a lot of problems. In
the Church he met Padre Pio who said: “Let that
railway-man pass!” Yet, Padre Pio had never
met my father before then so he could not know
my father was a railway-man. Anyway, Padre
Pio and my father met and spoke to each other
for some minutes.
Later, Padre Pio put his hand on my father’s
shoulder, he consoled my father and he
encouraged him with a smile. As soon as my
father left Padre Pio, he realized he had been
healed. While my father took in his hand the
tools he needed to walk he was not using them
anymore, my uncle followed him astonished.
Miracles and the possibilities
of man
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Padre Pio’s case = indication that
there is in fact a good chance that
the miracles of Jesus and his
prophets are more than just old
wives’ tales
Therefore = if the evidence of these
miracles come from very reliable
sources, what does this imply about
the true ability of man?