Padre Pio's Beliefs

He got his first chance when Assisi declared war on their longtime enemy, the nearby town of Perugia. When Francis was just barely twenty years old, he fought in the war between Assisi and Perugia and was taken prisoner. Most of the troops from Assisi were butchered in the fight. Only those wealthy enough to expect to be ransomed were taken prisoner. At last Francis was among the nobility like he always wanted to be, but chained in a harsh, dark dungeon. All accounts say that he never lost his happy manner in that horrible place. Finally, after a year in the dungeon, he was ransomed. Strangely, the experience didn't seem to change him. He gave himself to partying with as much joy and abandon as he had before the battle. That period shaped the young man's soul and the weaker his body became, the more deeply his sense of charity and love towards others took root in him. By the time he returned to Assisi, he was seriously ill. His mother's loving care and time itself brought him back to health, but the carefree life he had led before and which had started again by now, seemed empty to him. Driven by his dreams of being a soldier, he decided to follow a condottiere to the southern region of Apulia, but when he had gotten as far as Spoleto, the Lord appeared to him one night in a dream and ordered him to turn back. The words of God echoed in his mind like a summons. This marked the beginning of his gradual

Saint Francis of Assisi was born in Assisi, Italy in 1181. His mother named him Giovanni after John the Baptist, but his father did not want his child to be a ‘Man of God’

Padre Pio has become one of the most popular saints in the world. St. Pio of Pietrelcina or Padre Pio, was born in the small Italian village of Pietrelcina on May 25, 1887. Then known as Franscesco, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, he was born to two peasant farmers, Giuseppa and Grazio Forgione. The day after his birth, he was baptized at the Castle Church near his home. The town of Pietrelcina was very religious and saint's feast days were celebrated throughout the year, this had a strong influence on the Forgione family. From early on it was clear that Franscesco was a special child of God. As child he was very pious and decided he wanted to be a priest at a very early age. At age 16, he became a Capuchin novice and received the

Saint Francis of Assisi had a great childhood, but as he got older his father began to beat him. He lived the life of luxury, and was the the son of a very rich cloth merchant. He was born in Circa, Italy in 1181. He abandoned the life of luxury, for a life devoted to Christianity, and God. He was very devoted into living in poverty, and he rebuilt the Christian church. He is the patron Saint of ecology and animals. He wanted to go to the Christian church reportedly after hearing God’s voice. He insisted that this was his calling and his adulthood confirmed it.

Today New York City is home to over 3 million Italian Americans. When the Italian immigrants first came to America many settled in downtown Manhattan, in an area that came to be known as Little Italy. Living conditions in Little Italy were terrible. Large families were forced to live in tiny tenement apartments with sometimes up to five or six family members sharing a tiny bedroom. When the immigrants were able to save up enough money many moved their families to Staten Island where it was more rural and land was relatively inexpensive. Phyllis Lamattina, a longtime resident of the Roosebank area, has the knowledge of the Italian immigrants’ relationship to St. Joseph by Rosebank Church and how important the values of family was to the immigrants. In this interview. Ms. Lamattina, shares a brief oral history of her family and tells of this importance of family and church to the Italian immigrants.

Christianity is the top most practiced religion in the world, but that does not mean it is truly a divine and sacred religion as it is made out to be. From the very beginning when Christopher Columbus, an expeditioner, was spreading Christianity with good intentions of converting natives into a civilized, Christian society. However, his intentions was soon changed due to finding gold and an entitlement over the natives. The natives were manipulated and forced to become believers of Christianity and such a tragedy is significant because this event had started the foundation of Christianity. Juan Rulfo, author of the novel, “Pedro Paramo,” portrays the Catholic Church to be built on the weak foundation of immoral, faithless leaders and community

St. Francis of Assisi was born in Umbria in the year 1182. He was a child every father hoped for, he was filled with life, a determined and courageous individual. He was gifted with rather good looks, qualities that attracted friends and a gift of leadership. His father was an extremely wealthy merchant in Assisi. But this son, his favourite, was the one who broke Peter Bernardone’s heart. The boy turned on his father, and in a vicious event that eventually resulted into a public scene. St. Francis of Assisi stepped away from his father, his business and left his father in a state of immense emotional suffering.

In 1649, at age 23, he began to make his way to Guatemala,[2] the capital of New Spain, in hopes of connecting with a relative engaged in government service there. By the time he reached Havana, Cuba, he was out of money. Peter had to pay for his passage from that point by working on a ship which docked at Honduras from where he walked to Guatemala City.[4] After He arrived in Guatemala City so destitute that he joined the bread line which the Franciscans had established. He found Peter a job in a local textile factory.

HE had 7 years to go to become an ordained catholic priest. The daily routine at the friary followed a rigid schedule: prayers, meditation, choir singing, physical chores, spiritual readings, and instruction. The friars would wake up every midnight for another round of chants. His superiors discouraged letters or visitors.

Brigitte Anne Dionisio: She was born and grew up in the Philippines, moved to the United States with siblings at 11 years old. Her family both speak Tagalog and English fluently at home, Dionisio said in her culture Family is valuable, "That 's what my elders teach at every generation." Says Dionisio. She and her family aren 't that religious, Dionisio does go to church on Sundays with her family. Birthdays, Holidays or any event family always get together everyone had to attend. She is from a huge family, she follows every Filipino tradition.

Saint Bonaventure was born in Umbria, Italy to parents Giovanni di Fidanza who was a physician and Maria Ritella, he was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher, and there is not a lot of information about his childhood. He fell ill while he was young and was saved from death by the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi. He was born as Giovanni di Fidanza just like his father but later on be canonized by Pope Sixtus IV. He would be also later on declared a Doctor of the church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.

Francisco Pizarro was born in c.1475 in Trujillo, Spain. Francisco Pizarro's father was Captain Gonzalo Pizarro and his mother was Francisca González. When he was little, he spent much of his time in his grandparent's house. One legend says that for a little while he was a swineherd. A swineherd is a person who tends pigs. That was a huge possibility because in his region that job was very common. Francisco Pizarro participated in local wars and when those were over, he went over to Italy to fight.

Pope Francis was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires and was the eldest of five sons of Italian immigrants, Mario and Regina Sivori. Bergoglio graduated from technical school as a chemical technician and held many odd and interesting jobs, such as a laboratory technician, a janitor, and a nightclub bouncer . Eventually, Bergoglio chose to become a priest and entered Inmaculada Concepción Seminary and became a member of the Society of Jesus on 11 March 1958 after three years. In 1963, Bergoglio returned to Argentina after completing his studies of the humanities and later graduated from the Colegio de San José with a degree in philosophy. He then taught psychology and literature at Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción from 1964 to 1965 and in 1966 taught the same subjects at Colegio del Salvador. Bergoglio later studied theology and earned a degree from the Colegio of San José, after which he was ordained a priest on 13 December 1969 by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano , and continued his spiritual learning and training, and eventually went on to become Provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal San Roberto Bellarmino, and, obviously, went on to become the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church

Life of Pi by Yann Martel explores the idea of a shipwreck and two opposite species left alone, to either thrive together or kill one another. Piscine “Pi” Patel suffers greatly after the shipwreck of the cargo ship to Canada filled with various species of zoo animals from his father’s zoo in Pondicherry, India. He is left with only a lifeboat (and the supplied items), a hyena, an orangutan, a hurt zebra, and Richard Packer (a Bengal tiger). However, the need for food stood as a reacquiring problem for all the survivors. In the end, all that were left Richard Parker and Pi. These two soon learn to live amongst themselves, using each other to survive the suffering among them. Even though to many this seems impossible to have accomplished, the truth can sometimes be more unbelievable than fiction.

Catholicism is the world's largest denomination which is part of the apostolic church. The catholic origin and way of life was established by Jesus Christ during the 33 A.D time period. During Jesus’s lifetime, he and his twelve disciples spent their time, nurturing and developing the faith of catholicism, through their rites, beliefs and practices. Today there are over 1.2 billion catholics following the church's beliefs and practices under the head of the catholic church Pope Francis who is recognised as the ‘successor of St Peter’.