PADRE PIO Stories and Memories of My Mentor and Friend by FATHER GABRIELE AMORTH

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This colorful memoir offers a rare, close-up glimpse of the life and personality of St. Padre Pio, the greatly beloved modern saint who was blessed with many amazing spiritual gifts. The late Father Amorth, well-known chief exorcist  at the Vatican, enjoyed over two decades of a close friendship with the holy and quirky Capuchin monk, whom he considered his spiritual father. We learn how a young Padre Pio cured himself of a childhood disease by wolfing down all his mother’s fried bell peppers. We sense what it was like to go to confession with the friar; hear first-hand accounts of his miracles, of his stigmata, and of his long moving Masses. Rather than a plastic image of a great modern saint, this book is a portrait of a fully human kind of holiness, proof that even the most transcendent graces can be lived out on earth with simplicity and joy. Paper.