Faithful await mystic's body
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Pilgrims gathered to pray on Wednesday in a small town in southern Italy abuzz with anticipation for the moment when the exhumed body of a revered mystic monk would be put on display.
The body of the friar, who died in 1968 and was said to have had the stigmata — the wounds of Jesus' crucifixion on his hands and feet — will be placed in a glass coffin in San Giovanni Rotondo on Thursday.
"I knew Padre Pio, he saved my life from a terrible disease," said an elderly Italian woman dressed in the same dark shade of brown that the bearded Capuchin monk wore for most of his life.
The body of the friar, who died in 1968 and was said to have had the stigmata — the wounds of Jesus' crucifixion on his hands and feet — will be placed in a glass coffin in San Giovanni Rotondo on Thursday.
"I knew Padre Pio, he saved my life from a terrible disease," said an elderly Italian woman dressed in the same dark shade of brown that the bearded Capuchin monk wore for most of his life.
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