Popular Italian Catholic saint exhumed

[icebear]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080303/od_nm/italy_saint_dc


Mon Mar 3, 4:16 PM ET


ROME (Reuters) - The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.

The body of the Capuchin friar, who was said to have had the stigmata -- the wounds of Christ's crucifixion -- on his hands and feet -- is to be conserved and put in a part-glass coffin for at least several months from April 24.

:shocked

[Debbie M.]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080303/od_nm/italy_saint_dc


:shocked


Is it my imagination, or are the catholics becoming more and more wacky?:twitch

[Biblenuggetlady]

A Catholic magazine once found that far more Italian Catholics prayed to Padre Pio than to any other icon of the faith, including the Virgin Mary or Jesus.

But Padre Pio was dogged during his life and even after his death by accusations that he was a fraud.

A new book last year suggested he was a self-harming man who may have used carbolic acid to create wounds in his hands mimicking those of Christ when he was nailed to the cross.

Church officials have repeatedly denied that he was a fake.


Pathetic.

[BrideOfChrist]

"...to be on display for his many devotees." What in the world?? That's beyond bizarre.

[Sing4Him]

EWWWW!!

I visited a Catholic Church in Philly, where their old priest lied embalmed in glass. People came into the sanctually and knelt before HIM and did their "cross the body/chest thing".

It was very evil feeling in that sanctuary.. icky!

I can't think of the name of this place.. I remember it being a beautiful old building on the outside.. Does anyone know what place I am talking about here? I think they have online pics of this dead guy.

[BlessedinHim]

:tsk:idunno:scratch:twitch:ohno

[lyngraphics]

:scratch

CREEPY! :candle

[Constantine I]

This goes against the Biblical commandments of not worshiping any others except for God/Jesus Christ.

[yeshua'sbride]

:faint

:puke

[moosejive]

A little too bizarre for me.....:ohno:doh:faint