St. Pio Quiz


1. When Padre Pio was born in Pietrelcina, Italy, what was his father's occupation?
a) Medical doctor
b) Shopkeeper
c) Farmer
d) Mayor of Pietrelcina

2. How old was St. Pio when he received the visible stigmata, the five wounds of Jesus Christ?
a) 7
b) 15
c) 21
d) 31

3. How long did the wounds remain?
a) 40 weeks
b) 3 years
c) 10 years
d) 50 years

4. How many other priests in the history of the Catholic Church have had the stigmata?
a) One
b) Seven
c) Several hundred
d) None

5. Where did St. Pio's father go in the first years of the 20th century to seek work?
a) Milan and Torino, Italy
b) Caen and Rouen, France
c) Sheffield and York, England
d) Pennsylvania and New York, USA

6. What future Pope wrote in 1962 to St. Pio asking him to pray for a sick friend?
Paul VI
John Paul I
John Paul II
Benedict XVI

7. What American actress stated St. Pio was one of the three greatest people she had ever met?
Joan Crawford
Loretta Young
Jane Wyatt
Katharine Hepburn

8. When did his daily mass start?
5 a.m.
7 a.m.
10 a.m.
Midnight

9. A story was told after World War II that American pilots sent to bomb Padre Pio's city of San Giovanni, would see an apparition in the skies. What was it?
A light brighter than the sun
A dark thundercloud
Padre Pio waving them away
Phantom planes

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