Today we're going to have a look at a couple of testimonials of how Padre Pio, through
his intercession, helped various people.
These are miracles after Padre Pio's death.
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And welcome to this channel, Following Padre Pio.
And here we have a series of short stories on the life of our great saint, Padre Pio,
who was a Capuchin friar, mystic, a tremendous miracle worker.
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could do for you.
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Now, in the first story, it is about someone who had a drinking problem, and this person
wishes to remain anonymous.
But he tells us this story.
Late one night, he was walking to his home from work and he was praying the rosary in
order to overcome a particular problem that he had with alcohol.
He said this problem had been getting worse over time.
But he was newly married and he now had an infant son.
And he realized if he did not overcome this drinking problem, if he did not defeat it,
then his future was going to be filled with disasters.
And so now he was determined to overcome the problem.
And in his concern about this and worry about it, he turned to Padre Pio, asking him for
help.
And he was praying the rosary at this time when suddenly, a fragrance of indescribable
beauty, of indescribable character fill the air.
"It seemed to envelop me," he said, "with its delightful aroma.
And it also produced a deep sense of peace and satisfaction.
And then as quickly as the aroma had arrived, it suddenly stopped."
Not long after that, this is just a few steps later and he was now back at home.
It was his custom now, the first thing he will do would be to go upstairs and to visit
his infant son who is now asleep in the crib.
And as he entered his son's room, the same fragrance returned, and then it disappeared
again.
Now remember, he says that, "I had been asking Pio in order to help me overcome this alcohol
problem."
And then he adds, "Quite amazingly, I must tell you, from the night of the fragrance
onwards to this very day, I developed and have maintained a deep disgust for alcohol.
And this has gone on for more than 20 years."
He said, "Absolutely no desire whatsoever to drink alcohol in any form."
It was after this experience only that he learned that Padre Pio often uses these fragrances
as a sign that he was busy answering the prayer.
As we said, that story is by someone, an anonymous person, who withheld his name.
But it is a beautiful story of overcoming this vice that can really be destructive in
one's life.
Our next testimony is called healed in a dream.
And this person had been suffering now for more than 10 years.
And this was December 1983.
And then he started this Novena to Padre Pio.
And now just a month and a bit later, this was February, he said his condition had now
grown worse.
His ankles had become swollen and the pain was excruciating.
It was unbearable.
And then on February the 10th, he tells us he was healed in a dream.
This is his dream.
"I was in this beautiful chapel and Padre Pio came up to me and he told me to sit down
and then he touched my swollen ankles.
And he also touched my back.
And then he said, 'Get up and walk.
You are healed.'
And immediately," he said, "I woke up and got up from the bed.
And I walked without a single pain in my body."
Well, that morning he went to mass to thank our Lord.
But during mass, the pain came back.
And he says, "It was only for an instance because soon, it felt like a warm hand had
touched my back.
It took my pain away, and I have never known that pain again," he says.
And this fellow's name was Gregory William Collins.
These two incredible testimonies of healing.
And by this stage, Padre Pio had already gone onto his eternal reward.
He was in heaven seeing God face to face and still continued to intercede for us from there.
That's how these healings happened.
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