Padre Pio is known in part for his prophetic ability, his healing power and receiving the stigmata. But during his life and after his death, these expressions of the 20th-century saint’s ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who ...

Padre Pio is mostly known for his deep wisdom about prayer and peace; his stigmata; miraculous reports of his bilocation; being physically attacked by the devil; and mastering the spiritual life.

An Italian saint who bore bleeding stigmata wounds like Christ’s was a fraud who faked them with carbolic acid, it has been alleged. Padre Pio claimed the circular cuts on his hands, which bled ...

Padre Pio was said to have been able to fly, and also to bilocate (to be in two places at once); his stigmata was allegedly accompanied by a miraculous perfume; the Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty, in ...

My experience visiting the 10 friaries of Padre Pio — a journey that resulted in the book ‘Following Padre Pio’ — was a true adventure.

At the end of the film, Padre Pio receives the stigmata while in prayer. “It’s easy to think that because he was holy, that he received the stigma automatically.

For 50 years, Italy's favourite saint, Padre Pio, stoically bore the marks of the bleeding stigmata - those marks of the wounds inflicted on the suffering crucified Christ. Pilgrims flocked to the ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who ...