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Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpiːno puʎˈʎiːzi], Sicilian: [pʊɟˈɟiːsɪ]; 15 September 1937 – 15 September 1993) was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio.
On 1 July 2004, John Paul II dedicated the Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, sometimes referred as the Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church. [127] The sanctuary has a capacity of around 6,000 people and its parvis has a 30,000 capacity. [128] The relics of Padre Pio are located in the crypt of the new sanctuary and displayed for veneration by the ...
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to an alleged beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you ...
Gerald Mellin (2008) – tied a rope around his neck and connected it to a tree before driving away in his sports car to commit suicide. [37] David Phyall (2008) – see List of unusual deaths; David Cawthorne Haines (2014) – decapitated in the Syro-Arabian desert by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Fr. Robert McQueeney, [197] [198] Actor and golfer who became a priest and spiritual director for the Padre Pio Foundation of America. Msgr. Cletus Madsen, [199] [200] A music director and St. Ambrose University person. Msgr. Francis A. Marzen, [201] Former editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald who worked as a city information specialist for ...
The Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia, Italy. The Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Italian: Santuario di San Pio da Pietrelcina), also called Shrine of Padre Pio or Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, is a Catholic shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia, Italy, owned by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and dedicated to the Italian ...
The case of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, whose 2011 stabbing death was initially ruled a homicide before the medical examiner switched it to suicide after police objected, will be heard ...
Pope Pius X (Italian: Pio X; né Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; [a] 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, and for promoting liturgical reforms and Thomist scholastic theology.