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- Herausgeber: anna ruggieri
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
This collection of inspiring, astonishing, and humorous anecdotes offers a glimpse into the life and miracles of Padre Pio. These personal accounts reveal how he inspired countless conversions through his gifts of bilocation, visions, healing powers, and multilingualism.
Written by Pascal Cataneo, a fellow priest and contemporary of Padre Pio, readers are given a unique window into this Capuchin friar’s humility, directness, and humor. By connecting the ordinary with the supernatural, it is shown that the miraculous is possible in this world.
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PADRE PIO
Glimpse into the Miraculous
Pascal Cataneo
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cataneo, Pascal. [Padre Pio gleanings] Padre Pio, glimpse into the miraculous / Pascal Cataneo ; translated by MaureenMcCollum and Gabriel Dextraze. p. cm. Translation of: Fioretti di Padre Pio Previously published under title: Padre Pio gleanings : Sherbrooke, QC : EditionsPaulines, c1991. ISBN-13: 978-0-8198-5988-4 ISBN-10: 0-8198-5988-5 1. Pio, of Pietrelcina, Saint, 1887-1968. 2. Capuchins--Italy--Biography. 3.Stigmatics--Italy--Biography. 4. Christian saints--Italy--Biography. I. Title. II.Title: Fioretti di Padre Pio. BX4700.P7755C3813 2013 282.092--dc23 [B] 2012030678
The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Translated by Maureen McCollum and Gabriel Dextraze
Originally published in Italian as I Fioretti di Padre Pio by Edizioni Dehoniane, Rome, 1988.
Copyright © 2013, Daughters of St. Paul
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Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1A Powerful Vision
CHAPTER 2A September Morning, 1918
The event
“Hey! What are you doing?”
Capuchin versus Benedictine
CHAPTER 3From Far and Wide
Beniamino Gigli in trouble
“Go back to 1936!”
“Why are you here with us?”
“O! Man from Genoa, you are close to the sea, but you do not know how to wash yourself!”
The perfumed poster
“That is heresy!”
Nair, the red pasionaria of Emilia
“That’s quite enough!”
A slow conversion
“Padre Pio! Give me a sign!”
A voice in the night said, “Get up and go to Padre Pio.”
A trap that worked
A spate of chain conversions
Called in his sleep
The return of the lost artist
The fasting laborer
Justified harshness
A murder was planned but . . .
CHAPTER 4A Penetrating Gaze
Like a page in a diary
“Call him Pio! Call him Francis!”
“He’s crazy!”
A fifty-year-long misunderstanding
“No! You will forget it.”
Don’t play games with suffering
The pictures did not cause the blasphemy
Words were unnecessary
“This spiritual life.”
A petty thief is caught
He smelled a rat!
Answering a sealed letter
“Padre Pio sent us.”
“Coward!”
“You will die in eight days!”
She did not believe Padre Pio but . . .
Marocchino’s goldfinch
Answer to a forgotten question
“You are on your last legs!”
A delayed departure
“In fifteen days you will die!”
CHAPTER 5Worldwide “Travels”
Deathbed absolution in Turin
“Go ahead! I will follow you.”
Incidents relating to the Marchioness Rizzani Boschi
In General Cadorna’s tent
Meeting with Mother Speranza at the Holy Office in Rome
“Get rid of that friar!”
“Get away from here!”
“I replied that night at the inn.”
A guide in the desert
Padre Pio in California
“I know it better than you!”
Padre Pio in Uruguay
“We cannot find Padre Pio!”
A thwarted air raid
Padre Pio at Maglie (Lecce)
The blaspheming potter
Orders from a loudspeaker
A strange way to get out
A pervading perfume
Behind the bishop
Other cases of Padre Pio’s power of bilocation
CHAPTER 6The Path to Health
The dead baby in the suitcase
Sight without pupils
A rigid leg bends!
A doctor turns to God
A cripple is healed
God’s plans take time
“Surgical intervention is unnecessary!”
“Come! Come! There’s nothing wrong with you!”
“When the bells ring, you will be healed!”
An atheist doctor is cured
It happened in a flash!
Padre Pio’s perfume cures a cancer patient
Cured in her sleep
He ran away from the hospital
“Go! Ride your bicycle!”
Padre Pio confirms a cure in Switzerland
“Is Padre Pio mistaken?”
A cure during confession
“He is the one I saw!”
A new lease on life
Padre Pio and Giovannino
“She is better off in heaven!”
“Woman! Why do you besiege me?”
Padre Pio’s healing scarf
“Do not move before Sunday!”
“I will come with you.”
“It is not yet time to go.”
“Don’t say anything to anyone!”
CHAPTER 7Appeals from Beyond the Grave
Four deceased friars visit the monastery
The old man who was burned alive
The novice in the unlit church
All his illnesses were over!
A friend visits from beyond the grave
CHAPTER 8Padre Pio’s Familiarity with His Guardian Angel
Padre Pio reproaches his guardian angel
Padre Pio speaks English
Padre Pio speaks German
An unusual mail carrier
A spiritual daughter makes herself heard
Padre Pio’s considerate guardian angel
CHAPTER 9On First-Name Terms with the Devil, Barbablù
A ferocious dog
A bogus confessor
From disbelief to terror
“Stay awhile!”
“You will not hear it again.”
Interference with the mail
An exorcism in the sacristy
Padre Pio pays dearly
Padre Pio gives Barbablù a kick
Barbablù takes over Padre Pio’s confessional
CHAPTER 10A Model of a Soldier
Padre Pio risks a court martial
Private Forgione finds a safe place for his possessions
Padre Pio takes a cab in Naples
With a pass and one lira in his pocket
CHAPTER 11Padre Pio’s Sense of Humor
A recruit prepares for the king’s visit
Padre Pio laughs during a sermon
Padre Pio is not afraid of lightning
Padre Pio for twenty cents!
“Go, tell Professor Lunedei . . .”
A visit from the President of the Republic
“With your kind of head, it would be difficult to sin!”
A humorous meeting
“Go ahead! This is your chance!”
“So, who is to blame?”
“What do you want for a blessing? A pail of water over your head?”
“They sing while I suffer!”
Conclusion
Introduction
I am privileged to have known Padre Pio personally. My first meeting with him took place at midday on June 17, 1940. I had just arrived from Bologna, Italy, where, the day before, I had been ordained a priest. I reached San Giovanni Rotondo, which was then quite different from the city it has since become. Before going to my own native village on Mount Gargano, I visited Padre Pio to consult him on a few personal problems, find out what he felt, and get his advice. I wanted to make a good start as a priest right from the very beginning.
Padre Pio received me in his cell, telling me he had not been able to go down to the chapel that day because of a severe headache. He immediately kissed my hands, as I was a new priest, and made himself completely available to me for as long as I wanted. At the end, he told me what he felt and gave me his advice.
To be honest, on walking out of his cell, I had the impression he had not given me more than any other priest I might have consulted. At that time I was also under the illusion that he had a kind of miraculous solution for every problem presented to him. In time I learned that Padre Pio intervened in a special way only when God moved him in that direction.
As a matter of fact, in all the years I knew and met with him, from 1940 until his death in 1968, I experienced extraordinary interventions on very few, rare occasions. It is mostly through other people, intimately connected with him, and through the numerous biographies written about him, that I have put together what is recorded here.
In this way I have become aware of the many sides of his personality harmoniously blended into a deep humanity and profound spirituality, which spontaneously manifested itself in many circumstances. I want to show this through this variety of episodes, which I call I Fioretti di Padre Pio [the Little Flowers of Padre Pio], not because they have entered into the realm of legend, but because they have an aura of mystery surrounding them.
Twenty years after his death, the picture of Padre Pio, far from fading, has taken on the dimensions and bearing of a giant in faith. One day, when a Brother remarked that the large number of visitors attracted by Padre Pio meant a great deal of extra work for those around him, Padre Pio replied prophetically, “This is nothing to what it will be one day!” On another occasion he said, “Wait a while . . . and you will see how truth will fly at you.”
We now see the fulfillment of those words. My desire is to contribute in some small way to a better understanding of Padre Pio by offering these “gleanings” for our reflection. I believe that what is written here, presented in a style acceptable to our contemporaries, will help build up that Kingdom of God so much needed by our world.
PASCAL CATANEO
CHAPTER 1
A Powerful Vision
To understand better what motivated Padre Pio throughout his life, we must keep in mind a very special vision he had in 1902. He later spoke of this significant event to his confessor, in the third-person singular, using his baptismal name, Francis.
A man of majestic appearance and rare beauty, shining like the sun, stood beside Francis and took him by the hand. After reassuring him he gave Francis this invitation: “Come with me for you must fight like a valiant warrior.” Francis was led to a vast countryside, through a multitude of men divided into two groups. On one side were very handsome men dressed in robes that were as white as snow. On the other side were very ugly men dressed in black robes and who appeared to be more like dark shadows.
The young man, standing between these two groups, saw a giant creature coming toward him. His forehead touched the clouds and he had horrible features.
The mysterious person in the shining white robes standing at his side told Francis to fight the monster. Francis begged to be spared from the fury of this strange being but was told: “You cannot escape this. You must fight. Courage! Go, fight boldly and with confidence. I will be here beside you to help you, and I will not allow the creature to defeat you.”
The battle began and it was terrible. Helped by the resplendent person in white, Francis had the upper hand. The monster was forced to retreat, followed by all the ugly, shadowy men, shouting, screaming, and cursing at the top of their voices. The handsome group in white robes applauded and praised the one who had helped Francis in this hard battle.
The resplendent one, who shone brighter than the sun, placed an indescribably beautiful crown on Francis’ head but removed it immediately saying: “Another crown, more beautiful than this, will be yours if you learn to fight this creature you have just defeated. He will always be back to attack you. Fight bravely and count on my help. Don’t be afraid of being harassed by him nor terrified by his horrible appearance. I will be with you, and I will help you every time so that you will be victorious over him.”
Padre Pio was called, in an extraordinary way, to wage war against the forces of evil, against those who assail mankind, against those who direct these forces and represent them, to help build up the Kingdom of God.
This struggle would be enacted, directly or indirectly, a thousand and one times, in various ways. The events reported in these pages offer only a few examples. They are, however, numerous enough to amaze us. May they also inspire us to advance on the path of spiritual maturity, to the point of finding perfection in the fullness of Christ!
CHAPTER 2
A September Morning, 1918
Padre Pio received the stigmata, or wounds of Christ, on September 20, 1918. This event determined his destiny and made him a powerful sign to the world.
What does this phenomenon mean? It probably parallels what St. Paul said of himself when he wrote, “I am now rejoicing in my suffering . . . in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Col 1:24).
