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Sergio Luzzatto, Padre Pio. Miracoli e politica nell’Italia del Novecento. Turin, Einaudi, 2007, viii + 419 p.

2008; Éditions de l'EHESS; Issue: 142 Linguagem: Inglês

1777-5825

David Lehmann,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

The cult of Padre Pio has engulfed the Catholic Church: in Italy, according to Sergio Luzzatto, more people pray to Padre Pio than to the Virgin, to any saint, or indeed to the very figure of Jesus Christ, and it has spread throughout Europe and the Americas. Padre Pio prayer groups constitute a worldwide devotional movement; the impoverished hamlet of San Giovanni Rotondo, on the plateau of the Gargano peninsula in Puglia, to whose minuscule convent the young Capuchin was sent during the Fir...