Roving Medievalist links here to a BBC news story about the exhumation of Padre Pio’s body. There is a link through to a BBC video about it as well. Digging up saints’ bodies. It all so Catholic. It’s ...

The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death. Padre Pio is one of ...

Bishop Domenico D'Ambrosio, a Vatican-appointed envoy who oversaw the unearthing Sunday night, said the body had been well preserved. Padre Pio, a mystic Capuchin monk who had an enormous following in ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (Reuters) - The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years ...

The exhumed remains of the Roman Catholic priest and recently-named Saint Padre Pio are on display in Italy. Thousands are gathering to pray and pay their respects to the Saint. A center celebrating ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy — The exhumed and cosmetically enhanced corpse of Padre Pio, a mystic monk and one of the world’s most revered saints, went on display here yesterday amid weeping devotees ...

Church officials exhumed the body of Padre Pio, a popular 20th century Italian saint earlier this month intending to put it on public display to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death.

A monk prays in front of the exhumed body of mystic saint Padre Pio. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP They travelled up to Rome from Puglia to see the remains of Italy’s beloved saint, Padre Pio...but ...

(Newser) - The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears, and of stigmata that ...