{"id":740,"date":"2011-04-14T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/157.230.63.74\/?p=740"},"modified":"2011-04-14T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:09:23","slug":"about-padre-pio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"About Padre Pio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/padrepio-tmb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347 alignleft\" style=\"padding-right:8px;\" title=\"padrepio-tmb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/padrepio-tmb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>Padre Pio was born on May 25, 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy, and baptized  in the name Francesco Grazio. From his early childhood he was visited  regularly by his guardian angel and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He did not  think this was unusual until a young friend told him otherwise. He was  ordained a priest in the Capuchin Order on August 10, 1910. His young  priestly life was marked by numerous episodes of poor health, and also  included a short stint with the military. After being discharged from  the Army in 1918, he was stationed at the monastery at San Giovanni  Rotondo, never to leave until his death. On December 20, 1918 he was  blessed with the extraordinary visible stigmata of Christ (5 wounds on  his hands, feet and side). His priestly ministry was characterized by  humility, perseverance and obedience to his priestly duties, especially  to the celebration of Mass, hours in the confessional, and spiritual  direction. He was able to read into the hearts of many who came to him  for confession, often reminding them of unconfessed sins and foretelling  future occurrences in their lives and God\u2019s will for them. A huge  international cult rose up around Padre Pio, manifesting itself in  constant crowds of pilgrims to the monastery to attend his Masses and to  confess to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padre Pio was born on May 25, 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy, and baptized in the name Francesco Grazio. From his early childhood he was visited regularly by his guardian angel and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He did not think this was unusual until a young friend told him otherwise. He was ordained a priest in [&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-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pppg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}