Padre Pio

From the condemnation of the Holy Office to the splendour of truth. When the author met Padre Pio on 23 August 1968, one month before his death, the stigmatised priest and miracle worker was very famous. He attracted thousands of faithful to San Giovanni Rotondo, at the tip of Italy, at that time one of the most visited in the world. This biography, for the first time, gives a large space to the writings of this giant of spirituality, more than four thousand pages, most of them unpublished in French. Beyond the extraordinary phenomena that marked the life of Padre Pio, whose astonishing charismas left their mark on people's minds, Joachim Bouflet poses a fundamental question: how can it be explained that he was condemned by the Holy Office in 1923 and beatified 76 years later? Far from the usual hagiographies, this work, based on the writings of Padre Pio and the testimonies of those who had contact with him, allows us to restore the incomparable greatness of an important saint of the 20th century.

JOACHIM BOUFLET

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