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For 50 years, Italy's favourite saint Padre Pio stoically bore the stigmata - the bleeding marks corresponding to the wounds inflicted on the suffering crucified Christ. Pilgrims flocked to the ...

ITALY'S Padre Pio used carbolic acid to cause bleeding wounds on his hands that he claimed were replicas of Christ's, according to a new book. Pio, a former monk who died in 1968 aged 81, wore gloves ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. 'The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy', by the historian Sergio ...

An Italian saint who bore bleeding stigmata wounds like Christ’s was a fraud who faked them with carbolic acid, it has been alleged. Padre Pio claimed the circular cuts on his hands, which bled ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who deliberately ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio ...