An Italian saint who bore bleeding stigmata wounds like Christ’s was a fraud who faked them with carbolic acid, it has been alleged. Padre Pio claimed the circular cuts on his hands, which bled ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who ...

And Bishop Carlo Raffaello Rossi, who conducted the investigation, concluded Padre Pio’s holy wounds were genuine and that “the distinctive elements of true stigmata were found in those of ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; ... The friar claimed that he had received the stigmata of Christ – wounds to his hands, ...

Saint Padre Pio's stigmata 'exposed' by new book. Italy's Padre Pio used carbolic acid to cause bleeding wounds on his hands that he claimed were replicas of Christ's, according to a new book.

Over the decades, Padre Pio was investigated for alleged sexual misconduct; doubt was cast on the stigmata, which his followers say he bore until his death; and he was banned at times from saying ...

Worshipers touch the relics of St. Pio. Five relics and a life-sized statue of St. Pio, who claimed to be the first priest in the Catholic church’s history to bear the stigmata wounds of Christ ...

The gloves St. Padre Pio wore to cover the wounds of stigmata will be displayed in Cincinnati next week along with other relics. A total of six relics of St. Pio are touring the country and will ...

Pope John Paul II yesterday made a saint of Padre Pio, the Italian monk whose body was said to have mimicked Christ’s bleeding wounds. Hundreds of thousands of people braved a hot day to throng ...

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Pio, a former monk who died in 1968 aged 81, wore gloves because his hands bled constantly for 50 years in what were revered as stigmata wounds. He became Italy's most loved saint after he was ...