Padre Pio's body had been buried in a crypt at Santa Maria delle Grazie church in San Giovanni Rotondo, beside the friary where he had lived for most of his 81 years. It was exhumed during a ...

In one, an Italian pharmacist testifies that his devout cousin, Maria De Vito, returned from pilgrimage to Pio's church in San Giovanni in 1919 with a request from the young priest for a bottle of ...

"I was an admirer of Padre Pio and I met him for the first time on 31 July 1919," wrote Maria De Vito. She claimed to have spent a month with the priest in the southern town of San Giovanni ...