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# 68 • SEPTEMBER 21 , 2015
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ITALIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY:
The Sanctuary of Padre Pio
By www.italia.it
The “Road of Pilgrims” that runs to the Arcangelo Michele Grotto in San Giovanni
Rotondo (Apulia) was created in the late
1800s. San Giovanni Rotondo is now famous all over the world as the native city
of St. Pio (meaning Pius, and known in
Italian as Padre Pio) of Pietrelcina, and
as the city where the venerated monk
worked his miracles. Pio was beatified
in 2002, and it was he who founded the
Sanctuary adjacent to the ancient Con-
vent of Santa Mar