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Originally Posted by BrotherLarry
Padre Pio
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I'd never heard of this particular idol so had a look to what it was. Eew!
Why is it that pagans flock after these obvious charlatans? Wishing to be charitable however and reflecting on the aspects of brain topography described earlier, I wondered if this wretch could be suffering some malady which Christ could have healed?
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From an early age, Pio had been a very sickly child, having suffered from a gastroenteritis attack at age six as well as a typhoid fever at age ten. At the age of 17, Br Pio suddenly fell ill again, complaining of weight-loss, insomnia, fainting spells and exhaustion—some of the many ailments he continued to experience throughout his life.
Padre Pio devotees highlight this time as the beginning of the many inexplicable phenomena which were to occur in his life.
https://www.scross.co.za/2018/09/padre-pio-holy-and-controversial/
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The typhoid can lead to brain inflammation and hallucinations— according to physicians, that is—and here those symptoms persisted. I don't want to dwell on this unnecessarily but you can read that in §2 "The road to priesthood"
para. 5
& 6.
Glossing over the levitation and corpse worship (the cadaver being "in a fairly good condition" yet needing to be concealed "with a life-like silicone mask" honestly you couldn't make this stuff up but it's sealed in a glass tank anyway just in case the smell of flowers §3
para. 4 escapes) we come to a new batch of demonic manifestation. In §5 "Death and sainthood"
para. 2
& 3, a double whammy is served up:
Levitation is not something endorsed by The Bible unless walking on water
Matthew 14:25-29 is a form of levitation—which seems unlikely since He was walking
on the water, not hovering above it—but the appearance of deceased persons
is associated with witchcraft:
I Samuel 28
7a Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her..
8a And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went...
8c And he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit
8d And bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee.
9a And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done
9b How he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land?
10 And Saul sware to her … there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
Whether venerating a deceased person who sees other deceased persons rising up before him and who has his minimally corrupted carcass displayed in a glass tank concealed by a silicone mask itself constitutes witchcraft is not for me to say. If Brother Larry has questions, the Pastoral Team will advise further – but in cleansing the premises there is one suggestion to consider. Some brands of furniture polish and the more effective household adhesives deserve consideration here. And not only in the context of spontaneous singing. They can also cause brain lesions. Some of the symptoms have already been described.