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The Padre Pio tour: How he touched my heart
My first time to visit Italy was unplanned. By a stroke of luck, or perhaps it was really destined, I became part of a delegation of 63 Filipinos that brought the precious heart relic of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from its sanctuary, to a 21-day tour of four locations in the Philippines.