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Padre Pio - At the door of Paradise - Twenty-ninth meeting

Back to the appointment with the biography that portrays an unpublished "History of Padre Pio told his friends:" On the Threshold of Paradise "by Saverio Gaeta. Today It is revealed how it has come to the beatification of Padre Pio:

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Miracles and supernatural events

The miracles of holiness

On December 10, 1981 Archbishop Paul Charter was received a private audience with John Paul and said, "Your Holiness, for seven years I was a bishop in Foggia, near Padre Pio '. So I am a witness of his holiness. I recommend the cause of his beatification. " And the Pope replied: "Padre Pio is there to admire the heroic life, the ministry of churches and the suffering of the stigmata. Once I went to see him and I confessed to him. I also remember a person with cancer, who had the cure for the intervention of Padre Pio [was her friend Wanda Poltawska, for whose sake the Archbishop Wojtyla had written in November 1962 to cappuccino, nei .. But we want miracles for beatification. " Then, smiling sweetly, said: "Padre Pio has done miracles in life. They face even after death. "

In fact, John Paul was already a personal interest - accepting the request made to him in writing by April 23, 1979 postulator Father Bernardino da Siena - so that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to grant nothing -ahead to open the diocesan phase of the canonization process (previously rejected February 16, 1972, July 6, 1974 and May 28, 1976). Finally, November 29, 1982, came the longed-for "green" and the Archbishop of Manfredonia was inaugurated the diocesan process, which lasted from 20 March 1983-21 January 1990, with the participation of 69 trial witnesses and 10 non-procedural. After the favorable opinion of theological Look, December 18, 1997 Pope John Paul II signed the decree on the heroic virtues of Padre Pio, declared Venerable.

The miracle for beatification was ratified what happened to Mrs. Salerno Recommend De Martino, 31 October 1995 had been hospitalized for a payment of lymphatic fluid that required surgery. The woman is now entrusted to the intercession of Padre Pio, to whom he was devoted, and in the afternoon of 1 November, having received a strong scent of flowers, he began to feel better. On November 4, abdomen and chest examinations documenting the unexplained disappearance of the liquid lymphatic and November 6, the patient was discharged fully recovered.

On May 2, 1999, in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II presided over the beatification ceremony, and declared that the liturgical feast of Padre Pio was placed on the calendar on September 23. Pope John Paul II stressed inter alia that "the testimony of Padre Pio is a powerful reminder of the supernatural dimension, not to be confused with the miracle, deviation from which he always shunned with firmness."

for the canonization was chosen instead of the miraculous cure of Matteo Pio Colella child was admitted in the House for the Relief of Suffering January 20, 1999 for meningitis. Even in this case were now offer prayers for the intercession of Padre Pio. The situation was in imminent danger of death, since they were nine bodies at the same time weak and international clinical literature deemed irrecoverable already sick with five bodies compromise. But the child - after seeing the Father in a dream telling him that he would have recovered - recovered his health and February 12 was discharged from the intensive care unit, in this case there were no scientific explanations to justify their recovery.