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No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display  

Posted Apr 24, 08 7:35 PM CDT in World    Editor's Choice

(newser) – Beloved saint Padre Pio, exhumed in March after 40 years, is now on display in southern Italy, where 700,000 faithful have signed up to view his remains, BBC reports. The archbishop who ran the exhumation marveled at the body: “The knees, hands, mittens, and nails are clearly visible.”

What appears to be missing, though, are his reported stigmata—wounds on the hands and feet in the pattern of those inflicted upon Jesus Christ. The Capuchin friar, canonized in 2002, is credited with scores of miraculous cures. Some still question his credibility, and even the Church once banned him from saying Mass; now, at least, they’ve made him a lifelike, hand-painted silicon mask.

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No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display
A silicon hand-painted bearded mask of the face of Padre Pio, an Italian saint, is seen on his body laying in repose inside a crystal casket.   (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display
A silicon hand-painted bearded mask of the face of Padre Pio, an Italian saint, is seen on his body.   (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display
People queue outside the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, Thursday, April 24, 2008 to view the body of Italian saint Padre Pio, pictured in giant banner.   (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display
Padre Pio laying in repose inside a crystal casket in the crypt of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.   (AP Photo/Pare Pio Sanctuary, HO)
No Rest for the ... Faithful? Italy's Padre Pio On Display
Archbishop Domenico D'Ambrosio, left, is helped by other priests to open the coffin containing the remains of Padre Pio.   (AP Photo)
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