The title of today's story is called Just One Photograph.
And it is about a photographer who visited Padre Pio, wanted to take a photograph of
Padre Pio, but in reality, wanted to mock Padre Pio.
Do stay tuned to find out more.
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One day, a photographer who was also a Freemason, he visited Padre Pio.
He visited San Giovanni Rotondo together with his wife, and they went through to the monastery
of Padre Pio and he said he wanted to photograph Padre Pio.
But in reality, his intentions were completely different, as he later admitted because he
was there to mock and to belittle and to denigrate Padre Pio.
Through these he d publish these photos in the newspapers and the media, but somehow
belittling Padre Pio.
So why we have to ask, would anyone want to denigrate Padre Pio?
And for this, we would have to understand a little bit of the ideology behind the photographer.
Well, according to Father Saunders, there's often a strong anti-Catholicism that permeates
Freemasonry.
So, it's a religion with any god or no God, and all religions within it seem to be somehow
equal.
And then interestingly, when Masonry expresses itself in a Christian context, often the original
meaning of things is changed.
For instance, for us, the symbol of the cross somehow represents Christ dying on the cross.
His redeeming grace to save mankind.
But they would present it as a symbol.
The cross would be for them a symbol of nature and eternal life.
So a completely different meaning.
Another example would be on the cross itself.
There was a titular with the words, the inscription INRI, Jesus of Nazarus, King of the Jews as
the Bible tells us, as scripture tells us.
But for them it's changed.
It's Igne Natura Renovatur Integra.
By fire, nature is renewed.
A completely different meaning.
Same symbol, completely different meaning.
And it seems that Masonry often wants to restrict what the church can and can't do.
Secularism is placed above the church.
So this photographer is coming from this mindset and he wants to denigrate Padre Pio.
However, something happened.
And later on, after the photographer had taken all of his photos, and now he went back to
his lab and he was developing the film, he was completely surprised.
Because there was something inexplicable on the film.
And it was the face of our Lord, or Padre Pio, I can't be sure which, and on his head
was a crown of thorns with even drops of blood running down the face.
So the Mason and his wife, they were completely shocked with this, but were they also impressed.
And so, because of this, it was not long before they returned to San Giovanni Rotondo because
they had to show this to Padre Pio.
They wanted to know what was going on here.
And when they arrived there, Padre Pio took the photograph, and in his usual, very casual
way, he looked at it and says, if he saw what actually happened.
And he said to them, "You are Masons, the ones who put the thorns on me, the thorns
that as you can see, pierce my head."
And not long after that, not surprisingly, both the Mason and his wife converted to Catholicism.
So Padre Pio had completely turned the situation on its head.
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