A Priest and some orthodox believers of Romania have joined the Catholic Church after a miracle of healing made by Padre Pio.
The priest and his community came from an orthodox religion joined Catholicism to express their devoted gratitude to St. Pio of Pietrelcina. The miracle occurred in Pesceana, a town in the County of Vallea, center-southern Romania. Here the local priest's mother, aged 71, was diagnose with lung cancer which she had suffered with for a long time.
After having submitted her to all the possible clinical checks, due to the presence of diffused metastasis, all the doctors gave her only a few months to live. The cancer was at an advance stage which was inoperable.
The orthodox priest, did not want to resign himself to losing his mother, so he asked his brother who lived in Rome to bring their mother to the best Italian doctor in Rome. The priest’s brother succeeded in arranging a medical check for their mother with a well known doctor who confirmed the diagnosis of his Rumanian colleagues.
One day, during her permanence in Rome, the lady accompanied her son to a catholic church. She noticed in a corner a big statue of Padre Pio and she was impressed. She asked her son about the statue and he illustrated to her Padre Pio’s history.
In the following days the woman went back to the same church and every time she stayed for a long time in prayer in front of the statue of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.
After two weeks she was due further medical checks and the son brought his mother to the same doctor, but this time, with a big surprise the doctor said there was no sign of the woman cancer.
The lady wanted to go back to Romania, on her return she told everything to her son the priest. She also told him that she had prayed to Padre Pio requesting his help and she had been listened too, despite her affiliation to the orthodox Church.
The news quickly spread in the Rumanian town and people started enquiring and finding out information on this stigmatized Monk. Some other people were healed by Padre Pio in the same town and they wanted to become catholic believers.
After some years their desire were finally turned into reality. They joined the Roman Catholic Church.
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