Word: pio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced...
Listen to the Boomlay. The 38-piece orchestra included 16 native percussion instruments (with names like the pio, chocalho de metal, reco-reco and matraca) which thumped and clattered and clapped the rhythm. At times the music was full of melody, as melancholy as a native chant. Sometimes it bumped and blared like a carnival band. There were smatterings of dissonance and explosions of jungle jazz; and in one scene, Villa-Lobos had two different songs going at once, as skillfully laced together as a Bach fugue...
Supported not only by the Student Council, but also by the Graduate Advisory Council and the Business School Student Association, the poll will ask three questions: Do you favor (1) No bread or rolls one meal per day and if so, at which meal; (2) Pio one day less per week; (3) No wheat cereals three days per week...
Home Cooking. In Niles. Ohio, a caterer named Pio Palermo ate a meal at home, died of food poisoning...
Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal...