1887
- 25 May - Padre Pio (Francesco Forgione) was born
in Pietrelcina (Benevento) to Grazio Forgione and
Maria Giuseppa (Peppa) Di Nunzio.
26 May - Little Francesco was baptised in the church
of Sant'Anna.
1903 - 6 January - Young Forgione enters the novitiate
of the Capuchins in Morcone
22 January - He conned the habit of the Capuchin
order and took the name of Brother Pio.
1907 - 27 January - Brother Pio took his final vows.
1910 - 10th August - Brother Pio was ordained a
priest in the cathedral of Benevento.
14 August - Padre Pio said his first Mass in Pietrelcina.
- Padre Pio suffered from pains in his hands and
feet. On 8 September 1911 he revealed to his Spiritual
Adviser, Padre Benedetto from SAN Marco in Lamis,
that he had had "invisible stigmata for about
a year".
1915 - 10 October - He told his Superior that he
had been suffering the pain inflicted by flagellations
and the crowning of thorns for years now.
1916 - 17 February - He was appointed to the monastery
of Sant'Anna in Foggia.
28 July - During a period of suffocating heat, he
was taken to the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo
and stayed there one week.
4 September - He returned to San Giovanni Rotondo
for some time.
18 December - He went to Naples on national service,
but his poor physical conditions made the doctors
send him home on special leave.
"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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