Padre Pio: Encounters With a Spiritual Daughter From Pietrelcina

by Graziella DeNunzio Mandato

Overview

A saint within living memory, Padre Pio touched the lives of many by the simple faith with which he lived his life, praying, offering Mass, and reading souls. Among those inspired by the saint, Graziella DeNunzio Mandato was given the grace of living in San Giovanni Rotondo and receiving daily Communion and frequent confession from Padre Pio’s pierced hands.  
In these pages, Graziella’s firsthand account recalls Padre Pio’s blessing on her marriage, the day her oldest two sons received their First Communion from his hands, and the fruits of his intercession before God for the family’s immigration to America. Padre Pio adopted Graziella as a spiritual daughter, guiding her and interceding for her for the entirety of her life. While Graziella remained close to him in Italy, she attended his Masses, marveling at the mystical experiences the Padre underwent throughout its various prayers. Even after her marriage and move to America, Padre Pio visited his spiritual daughter through dreams and a remarkable fragrance of sanctity. 
In this publication of Graziella’s memoirs, her sons have compiled additional chapters reflecting on their mother’s last earthly days and the spiritual fatherhood of Padre Pio. A treasury of personal encounters with Padre Pio and a wealth of insight into the vibrant spirituality of an extraordinary saint, Graziella’s newly expanded memoirs will lead readers to a more profound love of the Padre with a deep and abiding love for his children. 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505117813
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	04/23/2021
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	500,826
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Graziella De Nunzio Mandato was born in Italy in the village of Pietrelcina, in 1930, the same hometown of St. Padre Pio. She grew up in an environment and a culture that was saturated by a vibrant Catholic Faith that expressed great devotion and love for the Lord Jesus, for Our Lady, and for the Catholic Church. Padre Pio, himself, was reared in this faith culture of simple poor peasants. Graziella along with family members were able to get rather close and intimate with San Pio while he lived in San Giovanni Rotondo. He guided her and led her throughout her life. After marrying Andre, in 1955, at Padre Pio’s counsel, they eventually emigrated to the U.S.A. and raised a Christian family. Graziella and Andre died six months apart in 2014.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition xi

Foreword to the First Edition xiii

Prologue to the Second Edition xvii

Chronology xxv

Introduction 1

Part 1 Early Encounters with Padre Pio

1 Testimony of My Father 7

2 My First Meeting with Padre Pio 11

3 Padre Pio and Pietrelcina 12

4 Mary Pyle 15

5 Recollections of Padre Pio's Family 17

6 Healings 19

7 My Second Visit with Padre Pio 21

8 My Third Visit to San Giovanni Rotondo 24

9 Padre Pio and Bilocation 26

Part 2 San Giovanni Rotondo

10 Living in San Giovanni Rotondo 31

11 The Gift of Another Rosary 36

12 My Mother Confesses to Padre Pio 37

13 A Dear Firend - Cosimo Iadanza 38

14 My Brothers Confirmation 39

15 Family Experiences 40

16 Anouther Counsel 42

17 Giuseppe DeNunzio 43

18 Padre Pio's Ordination 44

19 Testimony of My Cousin and Padre Pio's Parents 45

20 Dedication of the Pietrelcina Convent 47

21 A Cross in the Sky 49

22 Padre Pio's Gift of Reading Hearts 50

23 My Grandfather, Antonio DeNunzio 51

24 Silvio Scocca 53

25 Mercurio Scocca and Padre Pio's Armchair 55

26 Padre Pio's Messages 56

Part 3 Under Padre Pio's Guidance

27 San Giovanni Rotondo Again 59

28 Testimony of Ettore Masone 60

29 Padre Pio Chooses My Husband 62

30 Our Nuptials 66

31 Married Life 68

32 Padre Pio Meets Pio Francesco and the Birth of Another Son 71

33 Salvatore Scigliuzzi's Story 74

34 Birth of My Third Son 76

35 Laurentana Carretti 77

36 The Healing of My Son Pio 79

37 My Son's First Communion and Our Move to the United States 80

38 Arrival in the United States 82

39 March 1968 85

40 Padre Pio's Death 86

41 Padre Pio's Protection 88

42 Padre Pio Helps Andre Stop Smoking 89

43 His Continued Guidance 90

44 Graziella 91

45 Returning to San Giovanni Rotondo on Our Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary 92

46 My Son enters the Capuchins 94

47 Padre Pio's Assistance with My Son Vincenzo 96

48 Preparation for Suffering 97

49 My Son's First Mass in Pietrelcina 99

50 My Father's Death 101

51 The Hundredth Anniversary of Padre Pio's Birth 103

52 My Grandchildren and Padre Pio 106

53 Padre Pio's Presence in Dreams 108

Conclusion 111

Appendix 1 Padre Pio as a Spiritual Father 113

Appendix 2 Andre Mandate and Padre Pio 132

Powerful Novena to the Sacred Heart Prayed by Padre Pio 137

Bibliography 139