Catholic devotees flock to venerate a relic of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as “Padre Pio” during the celebration of the Feast Day of Padre Pio. The relic is a handkerchief soaked with his ...

Along with these mystical but real wounds, Padre Pio also suffered health problems that forced him to live apart from his Franciscan community for the first six years of his priesthood. By 1916 he ...

Padre Pio died in 1968, and was declared a saint in 2002. Three years after his death, Pope Paul VI marveled at his simple and holy life in an address to the Capuchin Order. “A worldwide ...

Photo by Tatyana McGough Pictured at St Padre Pio Triduum in Franciscan Friary, Killarney on Saturday morning. Photo by Tatyana McGough Fr Eamonn O'Driscoll OFM (centre) pictured with from l-r ...