Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (three Ps) Feast Day September 23

Padre Pio is one might say a priestly version of Leon. For 50 years he was physically afflicted with the wounds which Christ suffered on the cross, and shed about a pint of blood a day. (Some say he had made a deal with God that God would stop WWI if Pio accepted the sufferings of it)--Though working 16 hour days, and not consuming enough calories for a normal person, he seemed to gain weight rather than to lose it. He had many other mystical experiences which people can learn about from the various books and websites, including padrepiotvu and the padre pio foundations in NYC and Pennsylvania, it is not known which are approved by the Vatican and sometimes there is bound to be infighting, (Pio himself was imprisoned in his own cell and forbidden to say public Masses by the Vatican for two years) but the worthiness of the provenance can be ascertained as well by some research.