This ppt tried to show marvellous things about Father Pio. The ppt was created for an oral presentation in Language FOUR, IFDC San Luis, 2013.

1. FATHER PIO
the “MIRACLE-WORKER”
Language IV.
Teacher Elda
Moller
Jensen.
by Adela
Pérez del
Viso

2. CONT E X T
Asthmatic bronchitis –
Large kidney stone
Chronic gastritis
Inflammations of
eyes, nose, ears and
throat.
Inguinal hernia
FRANCESCO FORGIONE. 1887 (PIETRELCINA)
POVERTY.
ALTAR BOY. 3 years at the PUBLIC SCHOOL.
ILLITERATE PARENTS.
Aged 15: NOVITIATE/ CAPUCHIN FRIARS.
MEMORISED SCRIPTURES.
PARENTS NARRATED BIBLE STORIES
Aged 23: PRIEST.
TO THEIR CHILDREN.
TILL DEATH (1968): SAN GIOVANNI DAILY MASS.
ROTONDO.
NIGHTLY ROSARY.
TWO OTHER BROTHERS.
NAMED IN THE SAME WAY
(FRANCESCO)
ABSTAINTION FROM MEAT 3 DAYS A
WEEK.

3. E X T RA ORDI N
ARY
EXPERI ENCE
S.
STIGMATA.
TRANSVERBERATION
BILOCATION
SOUL-READING.
PROPHECY.
POPE J.P.II.
FLYING ABILITIES. WWII
MYRACLES. S. Giovanni Rotondo.

4. S T I G MA T A .
“I yielded to a
drowsiness similar to a
sweet sleep; then I saw a
mysterious person
whose hands and feet
and side were dripping
blood. The vision
disappeared and I
became aware that my
hands, feet and side
were dripping
blood, too. I felt as if I
were dying on a cross”

5. S T I G MA T A
AND
T RANSVERBE
1915. (aged 28). INVISIBLE Stigmata.
RA T I ON.
1918 Visible stigmata.
AGOSTINO GEMELLI. FRIAR AND
PSYCHOLOGIST.
“An ignorant, self-mutilating
psychopath who exploited people´s
credulity”.
Transverberation
50 years.
Vanished 1968.
HOLLY OFFICE Investigation.
Or “THE CARLO MACCARI DOSSIER”.
Carbolic Acid??. Flower Perfume.200-page report.
Devastatingly critical.
Never published.//

6. OT HE R
E X T RA ORDI NA R
Y EVENT S

7. MIRACLE WORKS

8. CONCLUSION.
SUFFERING
SPIRITUAL
POWER
MYRACLES
MYSTICISM

9. SOURCES.
•WIKIPEDIA.
•unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Padre_Pio
•http://caccioppoli.com/Padre%20Pio%20di%
20Elia%20Stelluto/1916%20before%20PP.jpg
Http://www.pinterest.com/pin/2788010331519
68773/ FOR IMAGES of S GIOVANNI
ROTONDO)
•http://www.operapadrepio.it/operapp/en/
•ww.ewtn.com/padrepio/man/biography.