St. Pio is one of the greatest Mystics of our times.

God graced him with the stigmata. The wounds of Christ. He suffered greatly and was severely tormented by the devil.

St Pio spent endless hours in the confessional. He had many gifts bilocation and reading souls to name a few.

He would often give fragrant smells of cigar, roses, and ammonia. May miracles accrued due to the ammonia smell which meant danger.

I have visited to the National Centre of Padre Pio in Barto, PA USA several times. They have St. Pio’s original authentic confessional used by Padre Pio to hear confessions. They also had one of his gloves that bore the blood from his stigmata and so much more. 

Padre Pio said: "I will stand at the gates of Heaven and I will not enter until all of my spiritual children are with me."

St. Pio:

“You must be submissive to the will of the Divine Father. In that is total obedience which then result in total abandonment which the leads with the virtues to total perfection.”

“You must follow the ways of the Lord. Leave behind your passions of the flesh.”

“Build yourself around prayer”