Padre Pio and America

This book tells the fascinating life of St. Padre Pio; his life as a seminarian , young priest, and friar. While he was a seminarian and young priest, the Capuchins sent him home deathly ill numerous times. Finally, he was sent to remote San Giovanni Rotondo “ for a couple of weeks of mountain air.”

He never left.  But from this small, remote mountain friary, he exercised extraordinary influence on the world- through early on, he was forbidden by his superiors to preach, to write or to correspond.