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Padre Pio: His Biography
Padre Pio was born May 25, in Pietrelcina, Italy, a small country town located in southern Italy. His parents were Grazio Mario Forgione () and Maria Guiseppa de Nunzio Forgione ().
He was baptized the next day, in the nearby Castle Church, with the name of his brother, Francesco, who died in early infancy.
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Other children in the family were an older brother, Michele; three younger sisters: Felicita, Pellegrina and Grazia; and two children who died as lcina, Italy
Religion was the center of life for both Pietrelcina and the Forgione family.
The town had many celebrations throughout the year in honor of different saints and the bell in the Castle Church was used not for ringing the hour, but for daily devotional time. Friends have described the Forgione family as "the God-is-everything-people" because they attended Daily Mass, prayed the Rosary nightly and fasted three days a week from meat in honor of Our Lady of Mt.
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