Many of the students in Gaming will make a pilgrimage to San Giovanni Rotundo to pay a visit to St. Padre Pio and request his intercession in their lives. For those interested in going to San Giovanni, you will find the following breaking news to be in your interest:
Summarized from a recent press article on March 4.
The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.
The friar, born Francesco Forgione, died in 1968 aged 81.
The body of the Capuchin friar, who was said to have had the stigmata -- the wounds of Christ's crucifixion -- on his hands and feet -- is to be conserved and put in a part-glass coffin for at least several months from April 24.A Church statement said the body was in "fair condition", particularly the hands, which Archbishop Domenico D'Ambrosio, who witnessed the exhumation in the southern Italian town where Pio died, said "looked like they had just undergone a manicure".
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