SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis has traveled to southern Italy to honor a wildly popular Italian saint, Padre Pio. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 59°F.

PIETRELCINA, Italy — Speaking Saturday in Pietrelcina, the town where St. Padre Pio was born, Pope Francis encouraged devotion to Holy Mother Church, explaining how despite the imperfection of ...

The body of Padre Pio, one of Italy’s newest saints, went on public display Thursday in the small southern Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo. Padre Pio, whose real name is Francesco Forgione ...

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Italy's most loved saint, was born to peasant farmers in 1887 on the eastern coast of Italy. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

On Sept. 23, the Church celebrates one of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century — St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio. Saturday, June 28, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina — better known as Padre Pio — one of the most beloved modern saints in the Catholic Church, was born 137 years ago on May 25 in Pietrelcina, Italy.

Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, was born to Giuseppe and Grazio Forgione in Pietrelcina, Italy on May 25, 1887. Although the Forgiones were basically a poor family, they were ...

St. Padre Pio lived in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, ... Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who died on Sept. 23, 1968, (now his feast day) possessed all of the above extraordinary powers — and then some.

Director Abel Ferrara gestures during an interview with the Associated Press on his latest movie "Padre Pio" in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Abel Ferrara, whose gritty New York exploitation films ...

Abel Ferrara is directing the upcoming "Padre Pio," starring Shia LaBeouf, about the stigmatic saint of 20th-century Italy. The film centers itself around the rise of fascism in Italy.