When the author met Padre Pio on 23 August 1968, a month before his death, the Capuchin priest, stigmatized and a miracle worker, attracted thousands of faithful to San Giovanni Rotondo, in the heart of Italy, now one of the most visited shrines in the world.
This biography focuses on the writings of this giant of spirituality. Beyond the extraordinary phenomena marking the existence of Padre Pio, whose astonishing charisms have left their mark on people's minds, Joachim Bouflet asks a fundamental question: why was it that he was condemned by the Holy Office in 1923 and beatified seventy-six years later? Far from the usual hagiographies, this work, based on the writings of Padre Pio and the testimonies of those who approached him, makes it possible to restore the incomparable greatness of a major saint of the 20th century, whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 2002.
