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A saint within living memory, Padre Pio touched the lives of many by the simple faith with which he lived his life, praying, offering Mass, and reading souls. Among those inspired by the saint, Graziella DeNunzio Mandato was given the grace of living in San Giovanni Rotondo and receiving daily Communion and frequent confession from Padre Pio's pierced hands. In these pages, Graziella's firsthand account recalls Padre Pio's blessing on her marriage, the day her oldest two sons received their First Communion from his hands, and the fruits of his intercession before God for the family's immigration to America. Padre Pio adopted Graziella as a spiritual daughter, guiding her and interceding for her for the entirety of her life. While Graziella remained close to him in Italy, she attended his Masses, marveling at the mystical experiences the Padre underwent throughout its various prayers. Even after her marriage and move to America, Padre Pio visited his spiritual daughter through dreams and a remarkable fragrance of sanctity. In this publication of Graziella's memoirs, her sons have compiled additional chapters reflecting on their mother's last earthly days and the spiritual fatherhood of Padre Pio. A treasury of personal encounters with Padre Pio and a wealth of insight into the vibrant spirituality of an extraordinary saint, Graziella's newly expanded memoirs will lead readers to a more profound love of the Padre with a deep and abiding love for his children.

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	23 avril 2021
Nombre de lectures	6
EAN13	9781505117837
Langue	English

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Padre Pio
PADRE PIO
Encounters With a Spiritual Daughter From Pietrelcina
Second Edition
Graziella DeNunzio Mandato
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
Padre Pio: Encounters With a Spiritual Daughter From Pietrelcina Second Edition © 2021 Graziella DeNunzio Mandato
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Caroline Green
Cover and interior photos provided and used with permission from the Mandato family.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020948201
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1781-3 Kindle ISBN: 978-1-5051-1782-0 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-50511783-7
Published in the United States by TAN Books PO Box 269 Gastonia, NC 28053 www.TANBooks.com
Printed in the United States of America
To Dick and Maria Incremona, who are dear, dear friends of Graziella and incredible disciples of the Lord Jesus
Many years ago, Dick and Maria urged Graziella to record her memories of St. Pio. Without their encouragement and support, her memoirs would have never come to light. Slowly and steadfastly, she wrote all her recollections in Italian. Dick and Maria then published the first edition of this book. We are forever grateful for their kindness and witness to the Lord. Maria went to her eternal reward on March 9, 2019. Please offer a prayer for the repose of her soul.
We’d like to remember John Moorehouse, editor for TAN Books, who worked on this book with us and also had a great love for Padre Pio. He was suddenly summoned by the Lord; we remember John, his dear children, and his wife in our prayer.
Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the First Edition
Prologue to the Second Edition
Chronology
Introduction
Part One: Early Encounters with Padre Pio
1 Testimony of My Father
2 My First Meeting with Padre Pio
3 Padre Pio and Pietrelcina
4 Mary Pyle
5 Recollections of Padre Pio’s Family
6 Healings
7 My Second Visit with Padre Pio
8 My Third Visit to San Giovanni Rotondo
9 Padre Pio and Bilocation
Part Two: San Giovanni Rotondo
10 Living in San Giovanni Rotondo
11 The Gift of Another Rosary
12 My Mother Confesses to Padre Pio
13 A Dear Firend – Cosimo Iadanza
14 My Brother’s Confirmation
15 Family Experiences
16 Anouther Counsel
17 Giuseppe DeNunzio
18 Padre Pio’s Ordination
19 Testimony of My Cousin and Padre Pio’s Parents
20 Dedication of the Pietrelcina Convent
21 A Cross in the Sky
22 Padre Pio’s Gift of Reading Hearts
23 My Grandfather, Antonio DeNunzio
24 Silvio Scocca
25 Mercurio Scocca and Padre Pio’s Armchair
26 Padre Pio’s Messages
Part Three: Under Padre Pio’s Guidance
27 San Giovanni Rotondo Again
28 Testimony of Ettore Masone
29 Padre Pio Chooses My Husband
30 Our Nuptials
31 Married Life
32 Padre Pio Meets Pio Francesco and the Birth of Another Son
33 Salvatore Scigliuzzi’s Story
34 Birth of My Third Son
35 Laurentana Carretti
36 The Healing of My Son Pio
37 My Son’s First Communion and Our Move to the United States
38 Arrival in the United States
39 March 1968
40 Padre Pio’s Death
41 Padre Pio’s Protection
42 Padre Pio Helps Andre Stop Smoking
43 His Continued Guidance
44 Graziella
45 Returning to San Giovanni Rotondo on Our Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary
46 My Son enters the Capuchins
47 Padre Pio’s Assistance with My Son Vincenzo
48 Preparation for Suffering
49 My Son’s First Mass in Pietrelcina
50 My Father’s Death
51 The Hundredth Anniversary of Padre Pio’s Birth
52 My Grandchildren and Padre Pio
53 Padre Pio’s Presence in Dreams
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Padre Pio as a Spiritual Father
Appendix 2: Andre Mandato and Padre Pio
Powerful Novena to the Sacred Heart Prayed by Padre Pio
Bibliography
Foreword to the Second Edition
S t. Pio was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II on June 16, 2002, and we were given an incredible grace to be able to travel to our hometown of Pietrelcina with Mom and Dad, Graziella and Andre Mandato. They were so thrilled, along with all relatives, friends, and fellow citizens, to attend the canonization at Saint Peter’s on that day. In the words of St. John Paul II, “We thank the Almighty Father for sending us, in our own times, this giant of a saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.”
One day before the celebration of the sacrifice of the Mass at Holy Cross Parish in Rumson, New Jersey, my friend, Alexandra Daras approached me and asked for a copy of Mom’s book about her experiences with St. Pio. She and her family have a great love for Padre Pio. I told her that it was out of print and only a few copies were floating around. To my delightful surprise, she then volunteered to help publish a new edition of the book. Her dear sister Monica supported the idea and also became totally involved in this enterprise. They not only helped but also spearheaded the entire endeavor.
It was Alexandra who contacted TAN Books and began negotiating the publication of the second edition. We eventually signed a contract with TAN, updated the book, since both our parents Graziella and Andre went to the Lord in 2014, and worked on this second edition.
In this new edition, we have added two new chapters with an addendum. The first is a summary of Graziella’s last days on this earth and her death and birth into eternal life. The second new chapter at the end of the book is a reflection on Padre Pio as a spiritual father and the practical principles he taught to his spiritual sons and daughters. The brief addendum contains Andre Mandato’s experience with Padre Pio.
We are most grateful to TAN Books for printing this edition of our mother’s book and for promoting the life and witness of St. Pio. We are also very grateful to Alexandra and Monica, her sister, for their invaluable and incredible dedication in bringing this project to fruition. The Lord bless you all!
Father Pio Mandato, FMHJ
Foreword to the First Edition
Bishop James C. Timlin
I t is a pleasure to write a few words of introduction for the book by Graziella DeNunzio Mandato about Blessed Padre Pio.
Pope John Paul II, in his homily during the beatification of Blessed Padre Pio on May 2, 1999, said, “By his life given wholly to prayer and to listening to his brothers and sisters, this humble Capuchin friar astonished the world. Those who went to San Giovanni Rotondo to attend his Mass, to seek his counsel, or to confess to him saw in him a living image of Jesus Christ suffering and risen. The face of Padre Pio reflected the light of the resurrection. His body, marked by the stigmata, showed forth the intimate bond between death and resurrection, which characterizes the paschal mystery.”
The Holy Father stated that Padre Pio’s face reflected the light of the Resurrection. His very physical being, although scarred by suffering, radiated a life from the beyond, a human life that was transformed by God.
It was my great privilege to visit San Giovanni Rotondo in the winter of 1949 when I was a seminarian. I went to Padre Pio for confession and, along with the men in the sacristy, served his early morning Mass. It was a very moving moment, one I will never forget. Men and women are drawn to the saints because they reflect our earthly journey, the life of glory we all desire. May all those who read Graziella DeNunzio Mandato’s personal encounters with Blessed Padre Pio increase in their desire for God and his kingdom.
______________________ Father Pio Mandato, FMHJ
Dietrich von Hildebrand once wrote that in the lives of the saints, we see Christ. He shows himself. “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” Jesus told Philip (Jn 14:9). In the saints, we not only see Christ, but we also touch him and are touched by him. My mother’s beautiful experiences of her life, lived under Padre Pio’s fatherly protection, point to and affirm this truth. Not only she but multitudes have encountered the living Christ in the life of St. Pio of Pietrelcina.
Growing up in an Italian household in which faith in the Lord was very real, concrete, and never questioned—“Is he there or not?”—and where Christian life was as natural as the air one breathes had a lot to do with the figure and personality of Padre Pio. I met him when I was a young boy, along with my brother Vincenzo, and we were privileged to receive First Holy Communion from him. More than my encounters with him, it was the influence of parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends, all who knew him very well, which helped to form us into Christian followers of Christ.
My mother’s recounting of her experiences with Padre Pio reads like the Fioretti of St. Francis. In Franciscan history, the Fioretti is a very popular account of the episodes of the life of St. Francis. It is not a strict historical study or the facts of St. Francis’s life but rather a “telling” of stories, experiences, and anecdotes of the Poverello’s life. Like the Gospel stories, it is more popular than an academic presentation. It is closer to life.
I think this type of storytelling makes a story very attractive and enjoyable to read. Primarily, it contains the God-human encounter. God does love us, does guide us, and does intervene in our daily lives, as Padre Pio’s life so clearly shows.
In reading my mother’s account, one is drawn into the fiber of her life, and it is easy to see the Lord acting in and through Padre Pio. In addition to encountering Christ through his servant Padre Pio, another truth is revealed to us. Our Lord not only wants to be seen but also wants to guide us. He wants to be our Shepherd.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, in his cla