Padre Pio’s Powerful Healing Prayer – Michael H. Brown at Spirit Daily Blog. Helping Those in Purgatory – Mary Rivers at Catholic365. Did You Know Saint Cecilia’s Husband was also a Saint ...

“St. Padre Pio is a pretty powerful intercessor…a priest said to me once that he’s probably one of the most active saints in the Church,” Father John Paul Zeller, a Franciscan Missionary ...

At the St. Padre Pio 20th anniversary celebration at LiGreci's Staaten, are from the left, Santina Consolino, Fran and Dennis Brown, Rev. Michael Martine, John Guidice, Joe Canepa, Diana Scire ...

Even before his death on Sept. 23, 1968, Padre Pio reportedly spent his last moments in prayer. Beatified in 1999, St. Padre Pio was canonized on June 16, 2002, by the late pope St. John Paul II.

Peter Nguyen and his sons Ethan, 7, left, and Nathan, 9, examine the relics of St. Padre Pio in the Cathedral of Saint Joseph the Workman Wednesday.

They came by the hundreds, by the busloads and by the carloads — pilgrims traveled hundreds of miles from at least five states to view and honor relics of St. Padre Pio Wednesday at St. Joseph ...

Hundreds of devout Catholics lined up outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral to touch and kiss relics belonging to Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.

St. Pio was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. He was a native of Pietrelcina, Italy, who was born in 1887. Pio's father, Grazio Forgione, emigrated in 1899 to New Castle for he worked to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A series of biographical motion pictures, including snippets on the extraordinary life of St. Padre Pio, will air at Holy Rosary R.C. Church over the next several months.