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The image and second class relics, “ex indumentis” (from the clothing) and “ex panno a stigmatibus cruentato” (from the bandage that covered the stigmatic wound) of Padre Pio de Pietrelcina will visit the Radio Veritas chapel from September 14 until his feast day on September 23, 2016.
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was a friar, priest and mystic famous of bearing the stigmata for most of his life. A member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, he was endowed with many extraordinary spiritual gifts and charisms including the gift of healing, bilocation, prophecy, miracles, discernment of spirits, the ability to abstain beyond man’s natural powers from both sleep and nourishment, the ability to read hearts, the gift of tongues (the ability to speak and understand languages that he had never studied), the gift of conversions, the grace to see angelic beings in form, and the fragrance which emanated from his wounds and which frequently announced his invisible presence.
He died on September 23, 1968, and was beatified in 1999 by then Pope now Saint John Paul II. Pope John Paul II also declared him saint on June 16, 2002 in one of the largest of such ceremonies in history, reportedly attended by more than 300,000 pilgrims braving blistering heat as they filled St. Peter’s Square. Also, His Holiness Pope Francis designated Saint Pio as one of the saint-confessors for Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy to inspire people to become reconciled to the Church and to God, by the confession of their sins.
Devotees seeking healing and other petitions may visit the miraculous image and relics from 8:00am to 5:00pm at the Radio Veritas chapel located at the second floor of Veritas Tower, 162 West Avenue cor EDSA in Quezon City. For inquiries, please call Ms. Renee Jose or Mr. Rey Isabela at (02) 925-7932 to 39 local 129.
Radio Veritas 846, the number one faith-based Radio in the Philippines, is owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Manila. Established in 1969, the Ramon Magsaysay recipient Catholic radio station continues to be the leading social communications ministry for truth and new evangelization in the country today.
