"A biography of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, an Italian priest who served from the friary of Our Lady of Grace until his death in 1968, discussing his life and times, and describing the miracles attributed to him."
"National Review called him "the hottest thing in mysticism in the twentieth century" and "one of the chief religious forces in Italy." By the time Padre Pio Forgione of Pietrelcina died in 1968, he was receiving five thousand letters a month, and thousands of visitors each year were converging on him from all pats of the earth. Hundreds of books and articles were written about him in his native Italy, and scores of stories appeared in other countries as well. He was widely known as the Second Saint Francis. - Introduction."
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