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The Boy Who Saw Angels: The Hidden Years of Francesco Forgione, Who Would Become Padre Pio

The Boy Who Saw Angels: The Hidden Years of Francesco Forgione, Who Would Become Padre Pio

Brick Hut Press

Paperback

Series: Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio, Book 1

Religious BiographiesBible Studies

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ISBN13: 9798951762191
Publisher: Brick Hut Press
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin friar and Catholic saint of San Giovanni Rotondo who bore the stigmata. What happens to a five year old boy who consecrates himself to God in a field and speaks with his guardian angel as a matter of course?

The account opens in the heat and dust of Pietrelcina in the 1880s, amid the smell of bread and olive wood in the devout Forgione household. Francesco experienced ecstasies and apparitions by age five, yet lived a firmly rooted peasant life. At fifteen, he entered the Capuchin novitiate at Morcone, receiving the name Fra Pio and stepping into a world of austerity and Latin. The path to the priesthood was wracked by mysterious respiratory crises and gastric pain that repeatedly forced him home, culminating in his ordination at Benevento in 1910 and a transient stigmata that came and healed. After a cycle of conscription and discharge during the Great War, a frail priest arrived at a wind scoured friary on the Gargano plateau in 1916, stepping into the place heaven intended him to stay.

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