Jul 10, 2022

Padre Pio, fascism and healing

Padre Pio, fascism and healing

Joe Szimhart discusses a large shrine to St. Padre Pio I visited recently outside of Barto, PA. My sister who passed away from cancer in May of this year had lit a votive candle there last summer to plea for healing. I reference the historical analysis of Pio (1887-1968) by Sergio Luzzatto in his Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age (2010).

“A case of stigmata” in JAMA Psychiatry, and “The Stigmatics/science/The Guardian 2004 13 Oct.




https://youtu.be/F0YwnZvWUo

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