Nice little video of Padre Pio - watching him always brings tears to my eyes - He was asked what he wanted on his tombstone - "here lies a priest who prayed".
Padre Pio has always been my inspiration. The "Old Mass" was so much more a vehicle that inspired the feeling of the eternal sacrifice. Shia LaBeouf, playing Padre Pio for the screne, was converted in his experience of the roll of the good friar:
I thought I would share this with you, my brother in law Brendan who is very sick at the moment drew this image of Padre Pio back in 1986 ..continued prayers to Padre for Brendan ...
My wife gave me a really cool Padre Pio Novena Chaplet card with a little special rosary! It has 3 sets of 5 beads.
there are many accounts,that his body temperature was so high it would break termometers(they were mercury back then)and he needed a horse termometer. I dont know if this means he suffered a lot ,or that he somehow surprassed human Nature in a beneficial way. Probably it means he had fever-suffering 24\7?