The body of St. Padre Pio will be exhumed, studied and displayed for public veneration from mid-April to late September, said the archbishop who oversees the shrine where the saint is buried at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

The body of St. Padre Pio will be exhumed, studied and displayed for public veneration from mid-April to late September, said the archbishop who oversees the shrine where the saint is buried at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. In addition to marking the 40th anniversary of Padre Pio's death Sept. 23, 1968, the public veneration of his remains also will coincide with the 90th anniversary of his having received the stigmata, bloody wounds recalling the crucifixion wounds of Jesus.

Padre Pio was beatified in 1999 and canonized in 2002.

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