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Francesco Forgione was born to a pious Italian peasant family in the year of Our Lord 1887. His father worked in the United States to pay for Pio’s education and vocation. At the age of fifteen, Francesco became a Capuchin Franciscan friar, taking the name Pio in honor of Pope St. Pius V. Seven years later he was ordained, and along with other disruptive health problems he began to suffer the stigmata of Our Lord, which in humiliation the young priest begged God to hide from view without removing the pain. A few years after Padre Pio’s brief service in World War I, the stigmata became visible again, and remained so for the rest of Pio’s life. The priest’s reputation for holiness grew, and people flocked to his ever-open confessional, where he could read souls, or to obtain one of the many miracles he worked. Pio was deeply humiliated by the fame, and humbly accepted suppression by his superiors, but a few years later Pope Pius XI lifted the ban on Pio’s public ministry. Offering up his constant pain, the humble friar served by hearing confessions, celebrating Mass, and even building a hospital, until his death in the year of Our Lord 1968.
AT Rome, St. Linus, pope and martyr, who governed the Roman church next after the blessed apostle Peter. He was crowned with martyrdom, and buried on the Vatican hill beside the same apostle.
At Iconium, in Lycaonia, St. Thecla, virgin and martyr, who was converted to the faith by the apostle St. Paul. Under the emperor Nero, she was victorious over the flames and the beasts to which she was exposed for the faith of Christ, and after many combats endured for the instruction of others, she went to Seleucia, where she ended her days in peace. Her memory has been eulogized by the Holy Fathers.
In Campania, the commemoration of blessed Sosius, deacon of the church of Misenum. The holy bishop Januarius, seeing a flame arise from his head as he was reading the Gospel in the church, foretold that he would be a martyr; and not many days after, when he was thirty years of age, he and the holy bishop suffered martyrdom by decapitation.
In Africa, the holy martyrs Andrew, John, Peter, and Anthony.
In the diocese of Coutances, St. Paternus, bishop and martyr.
At Ancona, St. Constantius, sacristan of the Church, renowned for the gift of miracles.
In Spain, the holy women Xantippa and Polyxena, who were disciples of the Apostles.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.