Padre Pio died September 23rd 1968 his funeral attended by over 100,000 people. During the fifty-eight years he was a priest, his monastery at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, became a mecca for pilgrims from all over the world. Born Francesco Forgione on May 25, 1857 at Pietrelcina in southeastern Italy, Padre Pio joined the Capuchin Order in 1903 and was ordained in 1910. On Sepember 20 1918 he received the sacred wounds of Christ, or the stigmata, which he bore for the rest of his life...