The Boy Who Saw Angels: The Hidden Years of Francesco Forgione, Who Would Become Padre Pio (Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio)
Language: English
Published by Brick Hut Press, 2026
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- Title
- The Boy Who Saw Angels: The Hidden Years of Francesco Forgione, Who Would Become Padre Pio (Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio)
- Author
- Brick Hut Press
- Publisher
- Brick Hut Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798951762191
Before the stigmata, before the confessional - there was a boy who saw angels.
The world knows Padre Pio the stigmatist, the confessor, the intercessor whose wounds bore the marks of Christ's own Passion. But long before the world knew any of that, there was a barefoot boy named Francesco Forgione, growing up in the hills of Pietrelcina - a child who already saw what others could not, who already suffered what others could not explain, and who already loved with a devotion that would one day set the whole Church on fire.
The Boy Who Saw Angels opens the hidden years of one of the most beloved figures in modern Catholic devotion. Here is the whole man behind the prayer card - the child, the son, the young novice, the agonized seminarian - and here is the God who was shaping him every step of the way.
- What this book covers:The childhood in Pietrelcina - the poverty, the faith, the family bonds, and the earliest signs of an extraordinary soul in an ordinary village
- The visions of his youth - what Francesco saw, what he endured, and how a young boy lived with heavenly encounters no one around him could fully understand
- His path to the Franciscan habit - the call he felt from childhood, the sacrifices his family made, and the formation that shaped his spirit and his solemn vows
- The spirituality of suffering - how early illness and interior darkness were not obstacles to holiness but the very road God chose for him
- His first Mass and the earliest wounds - the moments when the boy became a priest, and when the priest began to bear the marks of the Cross
- The soldier in a friar's habit - the disruption of war and the fidelity that held firm beneath it
Written with the reverence this subject deserves and the warmth that makes sacred biography genuinely readable, The Boy Who Saw Angels belongs in the hands of every Catholic who longs to know a saint not merely as a powerful intercessor but as a real human being whose struggles mirror their own.
Book One of Wounds of Love: The Life of Saint Padre Pio
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