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[[Image:Padre_Pio.jpg|frame|right|Pater Pio]]
'''Saint Pater Pio''' (or '''Padre Pio''') (born Francesco Forgione on [[May 25]], [[1887]] – died [[September 23]], [[1968]]) was an Italian [[priest]] who had [[stigmata]] for many years. What was so unusual about St. Pio's stigmata was that when it bled, the blood smelled of perfume or flowers. He acquired fame as a [[miracle]] worker and [[clairvoyant]]. He is described as having been a pious youth who often fell into "trances" and [[hallucination|hallucinating]] states of altered consciousness. He also developed a habit of [[flagellant|self-flagellation]], a behavioural phenomenon associated with religious extremism thought to fuel altered mental states. He is alleged by believers to have been able to [[bilocate]] and was granted a dispensation from ever saying the [[Novus Ordo Missae|Novus Ordo Mass]]. On [[June 16]], [[2002]], [[Pope John Paul II]] proclaimed the famous Pater Pio as ''Saint Pio of Pietrelcina''. [[Skeptic]]s have classified Padre Pio as a "pious fraud," opining that his widely-reported stigmata were self-inflicted. During his lifetime, Padre Pio was the subject of two official [[investigation]]s conducted by [[Vatican]] authorities.
== Biographical
*Born in [[Pietrelcina]], [[Italy]]
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