C. Bernard Ruffin

Padre Pio


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      Padre Pio

      The True Story

      Revised and Expanded, 3rd Edition

       C. Bernard Ruffin

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       This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Lillian Rebecca Jones Ruffin

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      Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible — Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 1965, 1966, 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Some Scripture quotations, where noted, are from the King James Version (KJV).

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      Copyright © 1982, 1991, 2018 by C. Bernard Ruffin. Published 2018.

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      ISBN: 978-1-61278-882-1 (Inventory No. T1677)

      eISBN: 978-1-61278-886-9

      LCCN: 81-81525

      Cover design: Tyler Ottinger

      Cover art: Elio Stelluto, San Giovanni Rotondo. All rights reserved.

      Photo-section design: Chelsea Alt

      Interior design: Sherri L. Hoffman

      Interior art: See the credits in the photo section

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      Table of Contents

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       Prologue: The Wise Man of the Gargano

       Chapter One: The Roots of a Saint

       Chapter Two: A Boy Who Talked to the Angels

       Chapter Three: Fra Pio

       Chapter Four: Encounters with the Invisible World

       Chapter Five: “A Holy Priest, a Perfect Victim”

       Chapter Six: Illness and Ecstasies

       Chapter Seven: The Double Exile

       Chapter Eight: “Supernatural Graces”

       Chapter Nine: Return to the Friary

       Chapter Ten: San Giovanni Rotondo

       Chapter Eleven: The Stigmata

       Chapter Twelve: “Holy Man”

       Chapter Thirteen: Holiness or Hysteria?

       Chapter Fourteen: The Spiritual Director

       Chapter Fifteen: Skeptics and Detractors

       Chapter Sixteen: The Friar and the Inquisitor

       Chapter Seventeen: “A True Satanic War”

       Chapter Eighteen: The Transfer That Never Happened

       Chapter Nineteen: Remarkable Providences

       Chapter Twenty: Friends, Family, and American Benefactors

       Chapter Twenty-One: “I Feel Like I’m Halfway in Hell”

       Chapter Twenty-Two: Imprisonment

       Chapter Twenty-Three: “What a Fearsome Thing a Saint Is!”

       Chapter Twenty-Four: A Prophet in Time of War

       Chapter Twenty-Five: Soldati Americani

       Chapter Twenty-Six: Seer on the Mountaintop

       Chapter Twenty-Seven: “A Magnificent Work of Charity”

       Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Twenty-Hour Day

       Chapter Twenty-Nine: Signs and Wonders

       Chapter Thirty: Bilocation

       Chapter Thirty-One: “I Only Pray … God Heals”