Whether you are holidaying in Italy or planning to make it your new home, weather is all important. Indeed, with global warming changing the pattern of life in much of southern Europe (whether you’re a believer or a sceptic, you cannot ignore the evidence on the ground, and that is that Italy, like many other [...]
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The news that the body of Padre Pio is to go on display in his home town of San Giovanni Rotondo, in the southern Italian region of Puglia is only the latest twist in an extraordinary story of miracles, alleged fraud and Papal vacillation. Francesco Forgione was born in Pietralcina, Campania in 1887, the son [...]
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