What do you think about this?
On the morning of September 20, 1918, a young friar named Padre Pio was praying alone before a crucifix in a monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. When the other monks found him, his hands, his feet, and his side were bleeding from open wounds in the exact places where Christ was said to have been pierced on the cross. They are called the stigmata. And on Padre Pio, they did not go away.
For fifty years those wounds bled. Daily. Through two world wars, through decades of medical examinations, through investigations by the Vatican itself, which was deeply skeptical and twice restricted his ministry. They sent a respected physician, Amico Bignami, an avowed atheist chosen precisely because he had no reason to believe. Bignami examined the wounds and could not call them fraud. No bandage, no chemical, no self-inflicted injury ever explained them.
Then came the strangest part of all. In the hours before Padre Pio died in 1968, the wounds that had bled for half a century closed completely and vanished. They left no scars. The skin was smooth, as though they had never been there.
Is it possible the human body can be marked by something medicine has no name for?
Faith made flesh, or a mystery science simply has not cracked yet? What do you think happened to him?
