LOOK: Christine Bersola, family go on Padre Pio pilgrimage in Italy
As a devotee of Padre Pio, former broadcaster Christine Bersola-Babao has visited the tomb of the popular Italian saint many times.
As a devotee of Padre Pio, former broadcaster Christine Bersola-Babao has visited the tomb of the popular Italian saint many times.
I have long been fascinated with Padre Pio, not so much for his stigmata (i.e., spontaneous wounds that appear in the hands, feet and sides of the body in the
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Two years ago, Angela Cruz wanted to visit the St. Pio Chapel in Quezon City and the National Shrine of St. Pio in Sto. Tomas, Batangas. This month, her wish was granted, but in a farther, significant place.
Devotees of St. Padre Pio flocked on Tuesday morning to the Manila Cathedral to see the saint’s heart relic and hear the welcome Mass.
Two groups of pilgrims from Adam’s Travel gathered at the Chapel of the Collegio Filippino on April 27, Divine Mercy Sunday, to attend the Eucharistic celebration officiated by Fr. Anton Pascual, president of Caritas Manila. Fr. James Kroeger, MM, Fr. Noel Labendia and Fr. Bong Pinto of Christ the King Seminary in Green Meadows were concelebrants.
At 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 14 I arrived at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Italy for an administrative council meeting with Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB), the international community of Benedictine women. It was cold and rainy.
Normally, the story of a politician who decides to put God ahead of everything else would be a work of fiction. Not in this case.
When Philippine Ambassador to the Holy See Mercedes Tuason offered to launch in Manila the English version of the book, “A Spiritual Son is Born: Our Story with Padre Pio of Pietrelcina,” in 2011, she must have been aware of the burden.
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