SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, ITALY — The exhumed and cosmetically enhanced corpse of Padre Pio, mystic monk and one of the world’s most revered saints, went on display here Thursday amid weeping devotees and ...
Before one of the largest crowds ever to fill the Vatican area, Pope John Paul yesterday made a saint of Padre Pio, a 20th century mystic monk who is said to have borne the bleeding wounds of Christ.