Category: in the Sanctuary

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Via Crucis Monumentale

The magical atmosphere that only prayer can give it can live along the route of the Via Crucis. Monumental work of the sculptor Francesco Messina is in granite and bronze. Lovely pine forest on a mountain...

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Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza

Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza is the hospital is strongly desired by Padre Pio. Opened on May 5th , 1956 as a private hospital of 250 beds, the hospital is now the most advanced of all the...

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Church of Saint Pio

A massive project, the result of the genius and inventiveness of the famous architect Renzo Piano. For its size is the second largest church in Italy after St. Peter’s in Rome. With 7,000 seats and a...

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Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie

In the fifties years the fame of Saint Pio was already so widespread among the faithfuls that it was necessary to build a new church adjacent to the ancient church. Inaugurated in 1959, it consists of...

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Ancient Church

Built in the mid of 1500 was dedicated to Santa Maria delle Grazie in 1600. On the door are painted a Madonna and Child, San Francisco and San Michele Arcangelo. Two commemorative plaques, placed by the...

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Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo

July 1916. Padre Pio, due to some health problems come to San Giovanni Rotondo on Gargano, to find some relief. In this small mountain town, where the air restore him, the saint has lived for about...