"To the small town of San Giovanni Rotondo, in Southern Italy, they came in their thousands - devotees of St Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, whose remains went on display to the public for the first time since his death 40 years ago. ... Padre Pio, was born in 1887 and died in 1968, is Catholicism's most widely and fervently worshipped saint. During his lifetime he was believed to have borne the stigmata - the wounds of the crucified Jesus - on his body, to have performed many miracles of healing, to have had the capacity of being in two places at the same time and to have emitted a strong aroma of wild flowers."
(Times, 25 April) RD
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a book claims that the stimatata wounds were self created using carbolic acid and claims to have found documentary evidence to prove it in the Vatican's archives.
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