Who's the CRAZIEST, COOLEST Italian Saint?

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='Slave_of_the_Trinity' post='953600' date='Apr 18 2006, 11:44 PM']
Horrible! I never would have thought that that would have happened in mexico!
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Back when they decided to try on communism...

[Slave_of_the_Trinity]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' post='953609' date='Apr 19 2006, 01:53 AM']
Back when they decided to try on communism...
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Obviously that was a dumb idea in a country that is almost entirely Catholic!! When was this?

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='Slave_of_the_Trinity' post='953622' date='Apr 19 2006, 12:05 AM']
Obviously that was a dumb idea in a country that is almost entirely Catholic!! When was this?
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the 30's I think...

[Old_Joe]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' post='953609' date='Apr 18 2006, 11:53 PM']
Back when they decided to try on communism...
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[quote name='Slave_of_the_Trinity' post='953622' date='Apr 19 2006, 12:05 AM']
Obviously that was a dumb idea in a country that is almost entirely Catholic!! When was this?
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[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' post='953624' date='Apr 19 2006, 12:05 AM']
the 30's I think...
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Obviously it didn't work.

[Slave_of_the_Trinity]

Does any one know anything about St. Vincent Ferrer? Why does he have wings on the holy card i have of him?

[missionseeker]

Fr. Pro died in 27

He was convicted of an assination attempt on the former president. He wasn't guilty but they wanted him dead anyway. He was killed because he was priest.

[morostheos]

[Tindomiel]

[quote name='Slave_of_the_Trinity' post='953600' date='Apr 19 2006, 12:44 AM']
Horrible! I never would have thought that that would have happened in mexico!
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Oh yeah, it was wicked bad in Mexico for a long time... especially in the '20s

[Theologian in Training]

Padre Pio is one of my favorite saints. As others have mentioned he was able to bilocate and heal. However, what others have not mentioned (which might be mentioned in the links, I have not checked them) is that he had the very rare gift of the stigmata (the wounds of Christ), he was able to read souls (which is why he was such an excellent confessor), he had great devotion to his guardian angel, whom he would send to his spiritual children when they needed assistance and he was unable to get there. He also is believed to have prayed 60 Rosaries a day (by rosaries, we are talking the full rosary...Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries).

Also, during the time of his receiving the sitgmata, he saw an angel that stuck a spear in his heart, so that he always felt the pain. There is a mystical term associated with it, because it was also something that happened to St. Teresa of Avila, however, I cannot remember what that term is at the moment.

The interesting thing about that experience is that it varies from person to person, re-telling the story of how he received the stigmata, however, I read his letters to his spiritual director, and though it is difficult for him to recount exactly what happened, it seems that what happened was that one day while in confession he was feeling ill and then felt faint, at which time he told the person confessing to leave. He says that he fell into a deep sleep of some kind and saw a dark figure, which may or may not have been an angel, he said, that this figure took a spear and pierced his heart, which left a hole that he believes remained there for the rest of his life. Apparently, a few days later while in prayer, the figure appeared again, the details are then pretty sketchy, because he cannot remember all the details, but he relates that when he "awoke" he was bleeding from his hands and his feet and in a lot of pain. These wounds would remain with him until his death and, in fact, before he died the deep red blood that used to flow from his wounds started to become lighter and pinkish, which was a sign that he was indeed dying.

One of my favorite stories about him was when someone who noticed the intense pain he suffered during Mass, came up to him after Mass to ask him if it hurt standing on his wounded feet. To which he simply replied: "my daughter, I am not standing but hanging."

God Bless

Edited April 21, 2006 by Theologian in Training

[Tarcisius]

someone else also asked him one time if his wounds hurt and he replied "I was not given these for show"
He would sometimes walk backwards down the altar steps because the pain was so great.

you could tell them how one of the aromas that he sent out was that of fine tobacco!

or you could tell them about his disgust for modernism, how he wrote a letter to the Pope asking for permission to never ever have to say the Novus Ordo and how hes been quoted saying "For pity's sake, end the Council quickly!" to a Cardinal regarding Vatican II

[goldbug16]

St. Padre Pio rocks my skull! His name reminds me of Padre Paulo.