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Before the stigmata and the confessional, there was a barefoot boy who saw angels.
The world knows the man bearing the marks of the Passion as a powerful intercessor, but this Catholic biography of Padre Pio reveals the child named Francesco Forgione. Growing up in the hills of Pietrelcina, he already saw what others could not and loved with a devotion that would one day set the Church on fire. By exploring the early life of Padre Pio, this volume uncovers the hidden years of a soul shaped by God at every step.
Here is the man behind the prayer card. Any biography of the stigmatist must begin with his youth, as Francesco endured unexplained trials long before he received the visible wounds. Like many saints who suffered for Christ, he learned that early illness and interior darkness were not obstacles to holiness, but the very road chosen for him.
What this book covers:
- The childhood in Pietrelcina: the poverty, the faith, the family bonds, and the earliest signs of an extraordinary soul in an ordinary village.
- The visions of his youth: what Francesco saw, what he endured, and how a young boy lived with heavenly encounters no one around him could fully understand.
- His path to the Franciscan habit: the call he felt from childhood, the sacrifices his family made, and the formation that shaped his spirit and his solemn vows.
- The spirituality of suffering: how early illness and interior darkness were not obstacles to holiness, but the very road God chose for him.
- His first Mass and the earliest wounds: the moments when the boy became a priest, and when the priest began to bear the marks of the Cross.
- The soldier in a friar's habit: the disruption of war and the fidelity that held firm beneath it.
Written with the reverence this subject deserves and the warmth that makes sacred biography genuinely readable, The Boy Who Saw Angels is for every Catholic who longs to know a saint not merely as a powerful intercessor, but as a real human being whose struggles mirror their own.
Book One of Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin friar and Catholic saint of San Giovanni Rotondo who bore the stigmata. What happens to a five year old boy who consecrates himself to God in a field and speaks with his guardian angel as a matter of course?The account opens in the heat and dust of Pietrelcina in the 1880s, amid the smell of bread and olive wood in the devout Forgione household. Francesco experienced ecstasies and apparitions by age five, yet lived a firmly rooted peasant life. At fifteen, he entered the Capuchin novitiate at Morcone, receiving the name Fra Pio and stepping into a world of austerity and Latin. The path to the priesthood was wracked by mysterious respiratory crises and gastric pain that repeatedly forced him home, culminating in his ordination at Benevento in 1910 and a transient stigmata that came and healed. After a cycle of conscription and discharge during the Great War, a frail priest arrived at a wind scoured friary on the Gargano plateau in 1916, stepping into the place heaven intended him to stay.Childhood mystical experiences: the early apparitions and the private consecration of a boy who treated the supernatural as ordinary.Revealing interior letters: the candor of a young friar writing to his spiritual directors about his spiritual dryness and fire.Military service cycles: the repeated conscriptions and medical discharges of a Capuchin drafted into the Italian army.Final permanent transfer: the arrival at the friary in San Giovanni Rotondo where he would spend the rest of his life.Book One of Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio. This volume covers the boyhood and physical trials of Francesco Forgione before the events detailed in The Wounds That Healed the World, which explores his reception of the stigmata in 1918 and his decades of daily pastoral care in the confessional. The arc concludes in Pray, Hope, and Do Not Worry, examining his spiritual guidance on suffering and the Eucharist as well as his heavenly intercession following his death.Readers seeking the peasant childhood of Francesco Forgione, the austere world of his Capuchin novitiate, and the physical trials preceding his priestly ordination. Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin friar. Book One traces the hidden early life of Francesco Forgione. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798951762191
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin friar and Catholic saint of San Giovanni Rotondo who bore the stigmata. What happens to a five year old boy who consecrates himself to God in a field and speaks with his guardian angel as a matter of course The account opens in the heat and dust of Pietrelcina in the 1880s, amid the smell of bread and olive wood in the devout Forgione household. Francesco experienced ecstasies and apparitions by age five, yet lived a firmly rooted peasant life. At fifteen, he entered the Capuchin novitiate at Morcone, receiving the name Fra Pio and stepping into a world of austerity and Latin. The path to the priesthood was wracked by mysterious respiratory crises and gastric pain that repeatedly forced him home, culminating in his ordination at Benevento in 1910 and a transient stigmata that came and healed. After a cycle of conscription and discharge during the Great War, a frail priest arrived at a wind scoured friary on the Gargano plateau in 1916, stepping into the place heaven intended him to stay.Childhood mystical experiences: the early apparitions and the private consecration of a boy who treated the supernatural as ordinary.Revealing interior letters: the candor of a young friar writing to his spiritual directors about his spiritual dryness and fire.Military service cycles: the repeated conscriptions and medical discharges of a Capuchin drafted into the Italian army.Final permanent transfer: the arrival at the friary in San Giovanni Rotondo where he would spend the rest of his life.Book One of Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio. This volume covers the boyhood and physical trials of Francesco Forgione before the events detailed in The Wounds That Healed the World, which explores his reception of the stigmata in 1918 and his decades of daily pastoral care in the confessional. The arc concludes in Pray, Hope, and Do Not Worry, examining his spiritual guidance on suffering and the Eucharist as well as his heavenly intercession following his death.Readers seeking the peasant childhood of Francesco Forgione, the austere world of his Capuchin novitiate, and the physical trials preceding his priestly ordination. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798951762191
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