Church and Friary – Visit Pietrelcina https://www.visitpietrelcina.com A place to Reflect and Enjoy Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:20:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 26704912 St. Padre Pio and Madona del Libera https://www.visitpietrelcina.com/pp-and-madona-del-libera/ Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:34:35 +0000 http://www.visitpietrelcina.com/?p=393 Growing up in Pietrelcina, St. Padre Pio was of course steeped in the local devotion to Our Lady of Liberty. However, it seems he also had a very personal devotion to her. One old resident related to us personally that Padre Pio had been seen talking to Our Lady at the foot of the altar.  ...

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]]> 393 Our Lady of Liberty https://www.visitpietrelcina.com/our-lady-of-liberty/ Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:23:54 +0000 http://www.visitpietrelcina.com/?p=387 The story of Our Lady of Liberty goes back nearly one and a half thousand years to the time of St. Barbatus who was then the Bishop of Benevento. At that time the city, and the surrounding countryside, were living in fear. The Byzantine Greek armies had already inflicted many horrors on other towns in ...

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