NEW YORK -- "American Idol" alum Christian Guardino's Italian upbringing is baked into his art. The Patchogue, Long Island, native's father is from Sciacca, Sicily and the influence on Christian is ...

Padre Pio, St. Gemma Galgani, St. Frances of Rome and St. Faustina had extraordinary relationships with their guardian angels ...

Staten Island Advance “Thanks to everyone for coming to Bocelli and donating to Holy Rosary Parish and for the good work you’re doing this evening for St. Padre Pio who bore the stigmata of ...

Padre Pio was canonized as a saint in Rome on June 16. Padre Pio belonged to the Capuchin congregation. Padre Pio had the stigmata and he used to celebrate the Eucharist with great fervour and ...

MARGAO: The feast of Saint Pio was joyfully celebrated on September 23 at the Padre Pio Shrine in Moddi, Navelim. Father Hermogenes Fernandes, the Parish Priest of St. Francis Xavier Church in Keri, ...

The years she had spent at the convent were filled with extraordinary gifts, such as: revelations, visions, hidden stigmata, participation in the Passion of the Lord, the gift of bilocation ...

My father actually met Padre Pio, last ordained a saint out of the stigmata. If you get the impression my father's religious—my mother even more so, she's scrupulous. She can't talk about ...

who in 1912 noted that the saint of the stigmata “knows neither Greek nor French.” However, in February 1912, after receiving letters in one of those languages, the priest asked Padre Pio ...

Padre Pio devoted his life to prayer and the Holy Eucharist at the monastery of San Giovanni Rotundo in Italy. He was a sought-after spiritual adviser, healer, and confessor. After he began to ...