Catholic artist Timothy Schmalz calls Padre Pio his favorite saint. And so, when he learned that four of his sculptures would honor the Italian mystic on his feast day — Sept. 23 — he was overjoyed.

St. Matthew Church in Tyrone will be home to a relic of St. Pio of Pietrelcina after the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the ...

Above, the hospital founded by Padre Pio was built in 1956 on the top of a hill in San Giovanni Rotondo. Today, it cares for more than 1 million patients. Below, Capuchin Father Robert Guenin ...

Thousands of people are expected to view the relics of Padre Pio, a Catholic saint, during an exhibition next week at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Naperville. Ron Frederick, a church member who ...

Padre Pio, who had the physical marks of Christ's passion on his body, showed Christ crucified to the world, Minister General Fr. Roberto Guerin, OFM Cap., said during a Mass for the saint's feast on ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, ITALY — The exhumed and cosmetically enhanced corpse of Padre Pio, mystic monk and one of the world’s most revered saints, went on display here Thursday amid weeping devotees and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As a way to mark the commemoratives connected to St. Padre Pio this year, Brian Hall, president of Joseph G. Hall Monument Company, donated an etching-on-marble-slab of St. Pio ...

Abel Ferrara’s latest film is a strange and frustratingly ambiguous tale of sin, sadness and spirituality Abel Ferrara’s new film shows that, like Paul Schrader, he has moved away from the world, the ...

During his lifetime, the beloved Roman Catholic priest and friar known as Padre Pio was believed to levitate, heal the sick, read minds and bilocate — the power to be in two places at once. Since his ...

(Reuters) - The exhumed body of Padre Pio has been put on display in a glass sepulcher in the southern Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo. Here are some details about the saint's life. LIFE OF PADRE ...