Padre Pio Coming to a Retreat Center Near You

If you have time to make a quick trip over to Vandalia, Illinois I highly encourage you to do so either on Tuesday, August 2 anytime between 10am-8pm or Friday, August 5 between 10am-Noon to venerate one of the gloves and dried blood (basically a scab - I know it sounds gross, but it's actually really cool) from his stigmata.  A priest who lived with St. Pio at San Giovanni Rotundo will be there, Fr. Ermelindo di Capua. 

Read more from the St. Louis Review.  Check out more info about the retreat that coincides with this at Our Sorrowful Mother's Ministry.