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Este padre gentil e humilde nasceu como Francesco Forgione, em 25 de maio de 1887, em uma das áreas mais pobres e atrasadas do sul da Itália. Aos quinze anos, entrou para um mosteiro dos capuchinhos | |||
franciscanos e, em 1910, foi ordenado sacerdote. | |||
He served in World War I in the medical corps, but was too sickly to continue. In 1918 he was transferred to the small sixteenth-century friary of Our Lady of Grace, about two hundred miles east of Rome. From then on, he never left this isolated mountain area. Yet, by the time of his death in 1968, he was receiving five thousand letters a month and thousands of visitors. He had become renowned for his piety and his miracles. | He served in World War I in the medical corps, but was too sickly to continue. In 1918 he was transferred to the small sixteenth-century friary of Our Lady of Grace, about two hundred miles east of Rome. From then on, he never left this isolated mountain area. Yet, by the time of his death in 1968, he was receiving five thousand letters a month and thousands of visitors. He had become renowned for his piety and his miracles. |
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