2023-05-09 07:33:00
May 9, 2023 / 12:33 a.m.
On a day like today, May 9, 1919, it was published in the Italian newspaper Il Newspaper of Italy the first newspaper article on Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, which you can read in full in this article.
The article titled “The miracles of a cappuccino in San Giovanni Rotondo”, was found by Francesco Bosco, a journalist for Padre Pio TV, in a clipping taken from the second page of the newspaper.
“The news reached the editorial office on May 6, 1919. The article was sent from San Giovanni Rotondo and attracted the attention of other journalists, who in turn published sensational news that aroused echoes in most of the world,” he says. Bosco.
The journalist explains that eight months after September 20, 1918, the time when Padre Pio began to become famous for the phenomenon of the stigmata, the flow of pilgrims increased and news reports also began to cover other events related to the saint. that had not yet been released.
“There was talk of miracles, bilocation, perfume, clairvoyance.” “In fact, it is precisely these phenomena that aroused the greatest attention of the people, considering the stigmas as something already acquired, almost as a premise of those interests in constant evolution and possible personal involvement. With the people, it was normal for the press and journalists to go up the Gargano”, added Bosco.
You can read the full article here The Journal of Italy:
“The extraordinary phenomena that manifest themselves in the person of a humble Capuchin are the subject of lively and interesting comments: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
He made his first appearance in our country surrounded by the halo of holiness and, since his appearance, people had signs of great veneration for him. His life as a penitent, his ministry exercised with great sacrifice, his wonders make the convent a crowded pilgrimage destination.
Many and varied are the miraculous events attributed to the saint: the prophetic spirit, the gift of clairvoyance, ubiquity, ecstasy; but if these facts can limit the skeptical, the generality admits a phenomenon visible to all: the phenomenon of the stigmata, appeared on both hands, feet and sides.
While, on the one hand, there are the little people who are attracted to the convent to visit the saint, on the other, there are the educated people and the clergy who maintain a rigorous reserve as an act of trustworthy judgment of the Church”.
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