# 47 of 80 - HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 47 OF 80 THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

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PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD RUFFIN

Chapter 22 - 'The Lord is not moved to Pity' p. 253 -256

 

"There were other miraculous deliverances claimed. People asked Padre Pio whether town or dwelling would be spared the bombs that were plummeting down on most Italian cities. Sometimes he seemed to know. When a man from Genoa asked if his city would be spared, the Padre began to weep and groaned, "Genoa will be bombed. Oh, how they will bomb that poor city! So many homes, buildings, and churches will crumble! But be calm. Your house will not be touched." 

 

And so it happened. When, in June 1944, the Allies bombed Genoa to rubble, the only house left standing untouched with a huge area of charred ruin was that of the man to whom Padre Pio had prophesied. ...

 

Anguished people asked Padre Pio for news of loved ones missing in action or as a result of bombings. Most of the time Pio could give no satisfaction, but occasionally he seemed to have supernatural insight. For instance, a mother of a soldier asked about her son, who was missing in action. Padre Pio, who had prayed for the boy, told the mother, "He must be alive, for I cannot see him in the other world." Eventually, the son returned.

 

On another occasion, A Franciscan tertiary from Morcone named Giuseppina Gagliardi, inquiring about her missing soldier son, was told by Padre Pio, Poor son, he suffered so much! ... He suffers no longer. We must resign ourselves to the will of God." Later, through the Red Cross, Signora Gagliardi learned that her son Italo had indeed been killed.

 

When Alberto Cardone made trips to San Giovanni in May 1944, he asked Padre Pio about various relatives. He said, "It's a long time since we have heard from my father." He was in America, but Cardone never mentioned this to Padre Pio. Nevertheless he was told, "Oh, your father's in America. He is better than you or I. What are you worrying about? He's okay." ... Cardone reported that when he returned home, he found a letter from his uncle Francesco, saying he was a prisoner in England and was working as a cook....

 

The Forgione family was not spared the horrors of war. In January 1944, Allied bombers swooped down on the town of Chieti, near the Adriatic Sea. Pulled mortally wounded from the rubble was Padre Pio's scapegrace sister, Pellegrina. (He had evidently not seen in many years, Pellegrina had worked as a seamstress in Naples for quite a few years before moving to Chieti. Local tradition holds that she made one trip to San Giovanni and so scandalized and offended her brother Pio that he slapped her in the face.)

 

Pellegrina lingered for a month in the hospital. Just before she died on February 19, she asked for a priest, received the sacraments, and was reconciled with the faith against which she had for so many years rebelled. It is not known whether Padre Pio appeared to her in bi-location as he had as month earlier to his pious sister-in-law, Giuseppa Cardona, who was dying of natural causes in Pietrecina. It is not even known whether he learned of his sister's fate until some time after her demise. But his comment on her passing away was, "I have prayed. I have made offering. I have suffered."

 

George H. Kubeck

 

P.S. I believe that St. Padre Pio's prayers of intercession can save America not only from the coronavirus but also from America's ideology of the Culture of Death and its atheism.