This colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St.
Rather than a plaster image of a saint, this book is a portrait of a fully human kind of holiness, proof that even the most astonishing graces can be lived out with simplicity and joy..
In this book, we span from Padre Pio\'s childhood--where he cured himself of a disease by wolfing down all his mother\'s fried bell peppers--to his miracle-filled priesthood, to his Italian gift for mimicry, humor, and storytelling.
Adding his own personal experience to a foundation of biographical research, Amorth gives an entertaining and illuminating account of perhaps one of the best-known saints of the twentieth century.
Amorth--well-known as an exorcist --enjoyed over two decades of a close friendship with the holy, quirky Padre Pio, whom he considered his spiritual father.
The late Fr.
Pio of Pietrelcina, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts.
This colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St
