# 60 OF 80 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

#60 OF 80 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - SUN. AUG. 2, 2020

 

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY - C. BERNARD

Chapter 29 - The Doctor - p. 335 - 346

    "On February 29, 1952, Frances Pasqualini, of San Francisco, Calif. wrote a letter in English to Padre Pio, which Father Dominic received and kept, in which she recounted how her six year-old daughter suddenly was stricken with violent coughing, repeated vomiting, and high fever. In those American doctors still make house calls but while the Pasqulinis were waiting for the physician, they prayer to Padre Pio and the Blessed Mother. No sooner had they finished their prayers than the little girl opened her eyes and said to her mother that she could smell something sweet, "like the incense they have in church!" By the time the doctor arrived, the spell of sickness had almost disappeared. This remarkable providence Mrs. Pasqualini attributed to Padre Pio...

 

    The case of Maria Palma Carboni, also noted by Father Dominic, seems to have been a genuine case of exorcism. Carboni a native of the town of Confiento in northern Italy, was a servant in the home of a wealthy Tuscan family. In April 1952, she was diagnosed as suffering from a "nervous crisis" and taken to a local hospital. There she grew progressively worse. Doctors were baffled by her condition. Some specialists said hers was case of mental illness, others suspected a brain tumor.

 

    She returned to her family home on  nearby farm, where her relatives become convinced that she was possessed by demons. "Her condition,"Father Dominic wrote his family, "was such as to terrify everyone,not only by its violence, but by its strangeness. During the day she was normal. But as soon as night came, she became violent, beat her self, and began to speak with the devil." She knew beforehand just how long the conversation was going to dance, and she told the bystander ikt would last 35 or 47 minutes....

    Somehow, on June 20, 1852, the frazzled party in their battered car arrived at San Giovanni was carried to a bench in the Church and lay there, apparently unconscious, until Padre Pio approached her and blessed her. "Poor little thing, who knows what she has suffered!" he said. "Let's hope she will better." Then he walked away. From that moment Carboni was perfectly normal. She returned home and the friars at San Giovannie kept in touch with her for some time....

 

    Yet there were enough substantiated cures (one friar who worked closely with Padre Pio estimated there were at least one thousand during his lifetime and more than a thousand after his death) to convince not just the ignorant and credulous, but medical men as well, physicians like Giuseppe Sala, who insisted, "Certainly there was healings and miracles." ...

    In his approach to disease, Padre Pio differed somewhat from many practitioners of "healing ministries." Unlike many "faith healers," Padre Pio never taught that one has a right to claim a healing. Very seldom did he lay hands on the sick, much less say, "Be healed." Most of the cures took place apart from the Padre's physical presence. " I don't remember any healings here at San Giovanni, but I heard people thanking him for being cured,"... In his approach to those who besought from him a grace for healing, Padre Pio was undramatic, making every effort to draw attention away from himself..

 

    "I knew from experience," Padre Alessio recalled, "that when Padre Pio said to the sick person. "I'll pray for you" or "Let's pray to God," the sick person was going to be healed. On the other hand, if he said, "Let's resign ourselves to the will of God" or said nothing at all, the grace of healing was not to be."... Then there was the case of John and Ellen Lynch, a couple in their early sixties who lived in Canterbury. In 1981 John was terminally ill with congestive heart failure and Ellen with pancreatic cancer. Death was expected within a matter of days. But then Padre Pio ... appeared to John - and to his dog! -- and immediately both husband and wife recovered almost instantaneously...

    To those who hailed him as a miracle-worker, Padre Pio answered that he was merely a poor sinner who prayed and encourage others to do likewise, pointing out that healing came from God and God alone. When thanked when healing a sick person, Padre Pio was embarrassed and insisted, "Don't thank me Thank God."

George H. Kubeck