Padre Pio, the true story | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:National Review called him "the hottest thing in mysticism in the twentieth century" and "one of the chief religious forces in Italy." By the time Padre Pio Forgione of Pietrelcina died in 1968, he was receiving five thousand letters a month, and thousands of visitors each year were converging on him from all pats of the earth. Hundreds of books and articles were written about him in his native Italy, and scores of stories appeared in other countries as well. He was widely known as the Second Saint Francis. - Introduction

Print Book, English, ©1982

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Ind., ©1982