Post by alienbeing on Nov 16, 2011 16:16:25 GMT 10
Padre Pio ‘used carbolic acid to make stigmata’ ;D
A SAINT celebrated for stigmata wounds like Christ's was a CHEAT who used carbolic acid to make them, a new book claims.
Padre Pio's hands bled constantly for 50 years and he wore gloves to cover them.
The former monk, who died in 1968 aged 81, claimed the circular wounds on his palms were replicas of those Jesus suffered on the cross.
Pio — whose real name was Francesco Forgione — was reputed to possess incredible healing powers and was venerated by millions.
He was popular worldwide and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
But recently unearthed documents reveal he was a fraud who used corrosive carbolic acid to inflict his hand injuries on himself. The papers include a letter from an Italian pharmacist who had arranged to deliver the acid.
The documents, stored in libraries at the Vatican, were unearthed by Professor Sergio Luzzatto, an eminent Italian historian.
In "Padre Pio: Miracle and Politics in a Secular Age", he said many Popes had called into question Pio's claims.
He claimed the Vatican declared Pio a saint only because of pressure from the public to do so.
Luzzatto said: "Human beings — and particularly the most fragile among them — will still need to look at figures such as Padre Pio to get, if not miracles, then at least consolation and hope."
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3937625/Padre-Pio-used-carbolic-acid-to-make-stigmata.html
bastard there goes my faith oh shit i forgot i dont have any ;D
A SAINT celebrated for stigmata wounds like Christ's was a CHEAT who used carbolic acid to make them, a new book claims.
Padre Pio's hands bled constantly for 50 years and he wore gloves to cover them.
The former monk, who died in 1968 aged 81, claimed the circular wounds on his palms were replicas of those Jesus suffered on the cross.
Pio — whose real name was Francesco Forgione — was reputed to possess incredible healing powers and was venerated by millions.
He was popular worldwide and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
But recently unearthed documents reveal he was a fraud who used corrosive carbolic acid to inflict his hand injuries on himself. The papers include a letter from an Italian pharmacist who had arranged to deliver the acid.
The documents, stored in libraries at the Vatican, were unearthed by Professor Sergio Luzzatto, an eminent Italian historian.
In "Padre Pio: Miracle and Politics in a Secular Age", he said many Popes had called into question Pio's claims.
He claimed the Vatican declared Pio a saint only because of pressure from the public to do so.
Luzzatto said: "Human beings — and particularly the most fragile among them — will still need to look at figures such as Padre Pio to get, if not miracles, then at least consolation and hope."
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3937625/Padre-Pio-used-carbolic-acid-to-make-stigmata.html
bastard there goes my faith oh shit i forgot i dont have any ;D