FROM A NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR The sacred stigmata in the life of stigmatist Padre Pio, who bore the wounds of Christ. Padre Pio is a recent stigmatic in Church history. The original stigmata work with Our Sunday Visitor received dozens of top notch reviews from scholars and critics the world over. This volume focuses on the stigmatic Padre Pio of Pietrelcina and the author's personal interviews with Padre Pio's friends and companions for the last three years of his life. The interviews were conducted in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy, where Padre Pio lived the last several decades of his life. A must read