8,000 make pilgrimage to Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Naper

8,000 make pilgrimage to Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Naperville to view Padre Pio relics

More than 8,000 visitors — twice as many as expected — traveled to Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Naperville Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Also known as Padre Pio, St. Pio was born Francesco Forgione in 1887 and became an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and mystic. In 1918 he experienced permanent wounds on his hands and feet, known as a ...

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