September 22, 2012. (Romereports.com) October 23rd marks the feast of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. The Italian Capuchin monk, is mostly known for bearing stigmata wounds in his hands. On June 21, 2009, during a visit to St. Giovanni Rotondo, Benedict XVI talked about Father Pio including the complete identification and connection he had with Christ.
BENEDICTO XVI (21/08/2009)
ORIG. ITA 11:23:25 – 11.24.25
“God never annihilates human beings but transforms them with his Spirit and orientates them to serving his plan of salvation. Padre Pio retained his own natural gifts and his own temperament, but he offered all things to God, who was able to make free use of them to extend Christ's work: to proclaim the Gospel, to forgive sins and to heal the sick in body and in mind.
Like Jesus, Padre Pio did not have to battle with earthly enemies, in radical combat, but rather with the spirit of evil (cf. Eph 6: 12). The greatest "storms" that threatened him were the assaults of the devil, from which he defended himself with 'the armour of God'”
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