You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Sean Inerst, who is a good friend, a teacher here at the Augustin

Institute, as well as a professor at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary here in Denver.

And it's a joy to have them on. We're going to talk about Padre Pio.

And so, Padre Pia, this great towering saint of the 20th century, he comes at a time during

his lifetime there's two great wars.

He's right there in Italy, right in the middle of it all.

And yet in this time where it seems that God has forsaken the world,

and there's all this bloodshed and conflict and violence and this movement away from God,

there's this incredible outpouring of God's grace in the life of Padre Pio for the sake of the world.

And so I think there's not a lot of accidents in terms of why he is such a man of

of incredible mysticism and grace and miracles. I mean, he's really known as kind of the saintly. I mean,

there's not many saints who are so associated with miracles as Padre Pio. Oh, absolutely. I sometimes, you know, offhandedly, maybe this isn't the best way to refer to his life,

is, you know, the miraculous quality of his life,

but I sometimes refer to him as the three-ring circus of mystical phenomena

because he, almost every gift that one can have he had

in spades in spades yeah dramatically and for a long period of time and so he was he was nothing but an

instrument of of god's sovereignty and power and love.

And it worked its way through these mystical phenomena, which just mount up almost without limit in the life of Padre Pio.

Well, where's the best place to start?

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