Tales of Padre Pio: The Friar of San Giovanni

These tales of humor, sadness and profound faith capture the man as well as the saint, and it is the one I would take to a desert isle--with Padre Pio's letters, of course! An organizer of the European resistance movements during World War II, and occasionally accused of being "too cerebral a Catholic," McCaffery was skeptical at first of the stories he'd heard of Padre Pio. But once he met him he was won over, and went on to become a sensitive and confidential friend of Pio, and to produce this marvelous book of the most touching and often very funny incidents. He knew Padre Pio from postwar on and describes all Pio's heroes of "those great days," who, with almost nothing to work with, but under the spell of a 'divine madness', built the magnificent hospital Padre Pio dreamed of for years. It became one of the greatest hospitals in Europe. Here are many wonderful stories of the miracles...Don't miss the Italian comedian, Carlo Campanini, declaring that he had the biggest cure of all from Padre Pio--he was cured of a "cancer of the soul!"