{"id":172,"date":"2010-08-26T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jkmsolutions.com\/PPPG\/?p=172"},"modified":"2011-01-05T02:22:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T02:22:47","slug":"about-the-casa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"About the Casa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 9, 1940, Padre Pio announced his grandiose plans to develop a  Home for the Relief of Suffering (the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza).  The Casa opened its doors on May 5, 1956 as a 300 bed facility, built on  the small, sincere and spontaneous donations and prayers of his  followers. He also developed an international network of prayer groups  for the support of the Casa and its ministry that continues to live on  and grow today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_200\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200 \" style=\"margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/about-casa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/about-casa.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/about-casa-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Padre Pio considered the Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza  (Casa) his \u201cWork\u201d, inspired and blessed by God, to be a haven of relief  from suffering for all of God\u2019s children in pain in body or soul. It is a  model community of Catholic Christian health delivery, and has grown  into a regional referral center of international renown. \u00a0Today, with  over 1,000 beds and services comparable to most academic research  centers of excellence, the Casa is thriving by God\u2019s graces in one of  the most remote, desolate and poorest areas of Italy\u2026atop Mount Gargano,  four hours from Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:\u00a0 <a title=\"Visit Teleradio Padre Pio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teleradiopadrepio.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teleradio Padre Pio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 9, 1940, Padre Pio announced his grandiose plans to develop a Home for the Relief of Suffering (the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza). The Casa opened its doors on May 5, 1956 as a 300 bed facility, built on the small, sincere and spontaneous donations and prayers of his followers. He also developed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}