The body of stigmatist St Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) will reportedly be exposed in St Peter’s Basilica for a week in February next year.
A “Jubilee for Padre Pio’s prayer group” will take place on February 13, 2016, as the body of the Capuchin saint will be exposed in St Peter’s from February 8-14, at Pope Francis’s request.
Twelve other prominent events involving the Pope have also been planned for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, reported the Catholic News Agency.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, reportedly started in a letter to another bishop that on February 13, the Pope will send out missionaries of Mercy, giving them a special mandate to preach and hear confessions.
The Jubilee Year of Mercy will open on December 8 this year and will run until November 20, 2016.
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