Saint Pio was born in Pietrelcina, Italy, on 25 May 1887.
His family was a hardworking farming family.
He was tutored privately until his entry into the Capuchin Friars
at the age of 15.   He was ordained a priest in 1910.

His whole life was marked by long hours of prayer
and continue austerity.  His letters to his spiritual directors reveal the suffering, physical and spiritual, which accompanied
him through out his entire life.

He had a very deep union with God the Father.
God in the three person, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
Saint Pio had a burning love for the Blessed Eucharist
and our Blessed Lady... The Lady of the Rosary.

On 20 September 1918 Stigmata:
The five wounds of our Lord's Passion appeared on his body.
He was the first stigmatized priest in the history of the Church.
This stigmata would continued for fifty years, until the end of his life.

St. Padre Pio was said to have had the gift of reading souls, the ability to bilocate (according to eyewitness accounts), among other supernatural phenomena.  He was said to communicate with angels and worked favors and healings before they were requested of him.

St. Padre Pio died at Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, on 23 September 1968.
His body after the funeral was entombed in the crypt of
Our Lady of Grace Church.

On 16 June 2002 Pope John Paul II declared Padre Pio Saint

St. Padre Pio Patron Saint:

• Stigmata

• Capuchin habit
  

St. Padre Pio attributes:

• Civil defense volunteers

• Adolescents

• Pietrelcina

• Stress relief

• January blues
  

a Prayer to obtain the Glorification of Padre Pio    O Jesus, full of grace and charity, victim for sinners, so impelled by love for us that you willed to die on the cross, I humbly beseech you to glorify in heaven and on earth the Servant of God, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who generously participated in your suffering, who loved you so much and laboured so faithfully for the glory of your heavenly Father and for the good of souls.    With confidence I beseech you to grant me, through his intercession, the grace of... (Make your request) which I ardently desire. Amen. Glory be to the Father...(end the Glorification of Padre Pio by saying this prayer three times)    Imprimatur: Manfredonia, 12-3-1971 Valentino Vailati Archbishop

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Efficacious Novena To the Sacred Hearth of Jesus

1.    O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you."  Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace...
   (Make your request) and say the following prayers:
   
   One Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory be to the Father.
   Now end with: Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
   aaa

2.    O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, He will give it to you". 
   Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of...
   (Make your request) and say the following prayers:
   
   One Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory be to the Father.
   Now end with: Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
   aaa

3.    O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away." 
   Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of...
   (Make your request) and say the following prayers:
   
   One Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory be to the Father.
   Now end with: Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
   

•    O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender mother and ours.

• Now finish the Efficacious Novena by
  saying Hail, Holy Queen and add:
  St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.