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|major_shrine=San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy |suppressed_date= |issues= }} Pio of Pietrelcina ((イタリア語:Pio da Pietrelcina)) O.F.M. Cap. (May 25, 1887September 23, 1968) — known as Padre Pio — was a friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic,〔 now venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius ((イタリア語:Pio)) when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Padre Pio became famous for bearing the stigmata , which is the marks of Christ,for most of his life, thereby generating much interest and controversy. He was both beatified (1999) and canonized (2002) by Pope John Paul II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Padre Pio de Pietrelcina",- PADRE PIO DA PIETRELCINA )〕 ==Early life== Francesco Forgione was born to Grazio Mario Forgione (1860–1946) and Maria Giuseppa Di Nunzio Forgione (1859–1929) on May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, a farming town in the southern Italian region of Campania.〔 His parents made a living as peasant farmers. He was baptized in the nearby Santa Anna Chapel, which stands upon the walls of a castle. He later served as an altar boy in this same chapel. His siblings were an older brother, Michele, and three younger sisters, Felicita, Pellegrina, and Grazia (who was later to become a Bridgettine nun).〔 His parents had two other children who died in infancy.〔 When he was baptized, he was given the name Francesco. He stated that by the time he was five years old, he had already made the decision to dedicate his entire life to God.〔〔 He began taking on penances and was chided on one occasion by his mother for using a stone as a pillow and sleeping on the stone floor.〔 He worked on the land up to the age of 10, looking after the small flock of sheep the family owned. This delayed his education to some extent.〔 〕 Pietrelcina was a town where feast days of saints were celebrated throughout the year, and the Forgione family was deeply religious. They attended daily Mass, prayed the Rosary nightly, and abstained from meat three days a week in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.〔 Although Francesco's parents and grandparents were illiterate, they memorized the scriptures and narrated Bible stories to their children. His mother said that Francesco was able to see and speak with Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and his guardian angel, and that as a child he assumed that all people could do so. According to the diary of Father Agostino da San Marco, who was his spiritual director in San Marco in Lamis, the young Francesco Forgione was afflicted with a number of illnesses. At six he suffered from a grave gastroenteritis which kept him bedridden for a long time. At ten he caught typhoid fever. As a youth, Francesco reported that he had experienced heavenly visions and ecstasies.〔 In 1897, after he had completed three years at the public school, Francesco was drawn to the life of a friar after listening to a young Capuchin friar who was in the countryside seeking donations. When Francesco expressed his desire to his parents, they made a trip to Morcone, a community north of Pietrelcina, to find out if their son was eligible to enter the Capuchin Order. The friars there informed them that they were interested in accepting Francesco into their community, but he needed more education.〔 Francesco's father went to the United States〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Saints )〕 in search of work to pay for private tutoring for his son, so that he might meet the academic requirements to enter the Capuchin Order.〔 It was in this period that Francesco received the sacrament of Confirmation on September 27, 1899. He underwent private tutoring and passed the stipulated academic requirements. On January 6, 1903, at the age of 15, he entered the novitiate of the Capuchin friars at Morcone. On January 22, he took the Franciscan habit and the name of Fra (Friar) Pio, in honor of Pope St. Pius I, whose relic is preserved in the Santa Anna Chapel in Pietrelcina.〔 He took the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pio of Pietrelcina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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