The
monastery was built with funds contributed by
benefactors and the local council in 1573. In
October 1911, following a medical examination
by Dr Antonio Cardarelli in Naples, Padre Pio
was taken to Venafro because, according to the
famous doctor, the young friar was nearing the
end of his days. He could not travel far, and
the monastery at Venafro was the closest. During
his month and a half's stay here, the fraternity
noticed the first spiritual phenomena: divine
ecstasy lasting up to an hour,
and
brief apparitions of the devil. To identify an
evil spirit, Padre Pio always used this single
command: "Say long live Christ". "Jesus,
the Saviour of men, the promised Messiah, was
born in the dead of the night, during the harshest
season, in the coldest of stables which was more
suitable for cattle than for human beings."
(Epist. III p. 971).
Padre Pio's Spirituality
Spiritual
school
"Let
us always trust in God, and may our lively faith and the comfort of Christian
hope assist us in this. We must pray continually, moreover, that peace may soon
smile on the nations. We should turn our thoughts to heaven, our true homeland,
of which our earthly country is but a dim image, and make every effort with the
divine assistance to preserve at all times, amidst happy or sad events, the cheerful
calm that becomes the true followers of the fair Nazarene" (Epist. I,
p. 596)
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