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As Blessed Saint Padre Pio used to say when people thanked him for the many miracles in their lives ..Saint Pio would always say...”Thank God for those Miracles,I performed no miracles,it was God who did that -all I did was pray fo

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Padre Pio was an Italian Franciscan who got the visible stigmata in 1918 after having pains in his hands and feet and side on and off since 1915. He was supposed to have the power to read minds and be in two places at the one time. His blood was perfumed and he was thought to have made the wounds himself and kept them open with carbolic acid and used eau-de-cologne for the allegedly miraculous fragrance. Carbolic acid does not cause wounds but burns but could certainly be useful to prevent infection and avoid the need to keep re-inflicting the wounds.

An Archbishop thought that and astonishingly, even a pro-Pio booklet confesses that there was a smell of carbolic acid from the wounds at times (Who is Padre Pio? page 15). The Archbishop, Pasquale Gagliardi, was found out to have engaged in illegal activities but that does not mean he lied about the stench. Pope John Paul II was an accessory to paedophilia for having done nothing about it and Pio’s supporters believe all he says about Pio who he canonised and they damn the Archbishop though his evil was nothing compared to that of the pope. The Archbishop had no need to falsely accuse Pio of having a carbolic smell in his wounds as if to suggest carbolic was being used to make the wounds for at that time it was popularly believed that autosuggestion and hypnosis could produce the wounds and it would have been safer for the Archbishop to use that line. Not only could an accusation of physically making the wounds end up being exposed as just a smear but he would have had more hope of winning over Pio’s fans had he taken the safe road.

In 2007, it was reported that Pio may have used carbolic acid to keep his wounds open and uninfected.

A pharmacist testified that Pio met her in 1919 at the end of July, and she wrote, “Padre Pio called me to him in complete secrecy and telling me not to tell his fellow brothers, he gave me personally an empty bottle, and asked if I would act as a chauffer to transport it back from Foggia to San Giovanni Rotondo with four grams of pure carbolic acid. He explained that the acid was for disinfecting syringes for injections. He also asked for other things, such as Valda pastilles.”

The secrecy clearly proves that Pio was up to something. Why be so secretive if the acid really was for disinfecting syringes? Why keep the brothers in the dark? Why not get the acid from the local doctors?

A pharmacist backed this story up. He reported to Bishop Monsignor Salvatore Bella that he thought Pio was using the acid to irritate his wounds and saw a letter in which Pio requested, “I am in need of 200g or 300g of carbolic acid for sterilising. I pray you to send it to me on Sunday.”

People reported a stench of carbolic acid from Pio. He did not pick this up by sterilising needles for the sick. Others who did the sterilising didn’t smell at all thanks to their protective clothing. And thought Pio had pains in his hands? He would have been of little use among the sick. It is not likely he sterilised much and if he was we must ask then why would Pio have been so keen on sterilising? Was it to get access to the acid to make his wounds?

The Archbishop was not the only one remarking about the carbolic acid smell.

Incredibly the same booklet claims that Pio occasionally exuded the smell of tobacco! And it adds that the smell was faint at times and strong at other times. Pio did nothing to hide the smell though his followers boast about how humble he was and hated attention and was even ashamed of his stigmata. They might say Pio could not disguise the smell for it was a miracle but that is too hard to believe. God would not pull off such mundane stunts. When saints have an aroma (you will understand why I do not designate the smell of tobacco as an aroma!) it is regarded as a special miracle marking out a man as so holy that even his body smells nice even though he has not been using scent. Pio had no problem then with this tobacco substitute for an “I am holy and humble” tattoo on the forehead. One thing is for sure when a person has a nice smell that is supposedly a miracle you can be sure that it is not. No sensible God would do such a mundane and easily duplicated miracle. Those who believe in this miracle are making the same mistake as those who say that the miracles of super-psychics are real though there are professional magicians who can do exactly the same things by trickery. Their prejudice and selectiveness is disturbing and Pio is to blame for that. He and they didn’t think much of their all-wise God.

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