{"id":20618,"date":"2019-09-23T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/?p=20618"},"modified":"2019-09-23T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:22:58","slug":"our-lady-and-padre-pio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/our-lady-and-padre-pio\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady and Padre Pio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today is the 51st anniversary of the death of Padre Pio. Padre Pio received the Stigmata \u2014 the Stigmata is the appearance of the wound marks of our crucified Lord on a person&#8217;s body (such as the hands, wrists, and feet).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20619 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387a_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387a_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387a_300-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On April 24, 1959, the Pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima visited Italy, starting from Naples. On the same day, Padre Pio became very ill. He had broncopneumonia and could not celebrate Mass. On August 01, Padre Pio an in-patient at Casa Sallievo, regained some strength but the illness persisted. On August 05, the statue came to the Convent. On August 06, the statue was just leaving in a helicopter. From the hospital, Padre Pio pleaded, \u201cMadonna, my Mother, I have been sick since you came to Italy; and now you are leaving, and leaving me sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Padre Pio reported: \u201cI felt a chill in the bones.\u201d Then: \u201cI\u2019m feeling well.\u201d \u201cI am healed! Our Lady has healed me!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On August 10, Padre Pio resumed celebrating Mass, and on the 21st he resumed hearing confessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Padre Pio said many times: \u201cI wish I had a voice loud enough to tell all the sinners of the world to love Mary. She is the ocean across which one must travel in order to reach Jesus.\u201d Above Padre Pio\u2019s door were the words: \u201cMary is the reason of all my hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Father Tarcisio Zullo once asked Padre Pio: \u201cFather, is the Madonna at this moment in this room?\u201d Padre Pio\u2019s answer: \u201cWrong formulation. You should have asked \u2018Did the Madonna ever leave this room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20627 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387b_260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387b_260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387b_260-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387b_260-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/news387b_260-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>One evening, Dr. Kisvarday was taking with Padre Pio in his cell when the light went off. He got up to get a candle. \u201cWhere are you going? There is so much light. We don\u2019t need a candle. Don\u2019t you see the Madonna lighting up the cell?\u201d Dr. Kisvarday: \u201cI didn\u2019t see the Madonna, I saw only pitch dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One day, Fr. Pellegrino asked Padre Pio: \u201cWhy do you attribute the solution of every problem to Our Lady?\u201d he received this reply: \u201cIt is a matter of taste. But I must say, I did not make the choice, She did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 51st anniversary of the death of Padre Pio. Padre Pio received the Stigmata \u2014 the Stigmata is the appearance of the wound marks of our crucified Lord on a person&#8217;s body (such as the hands, wrists, and feet).<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/our-lady-and-padre-pio\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20635,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions\/20635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}