Italian saint draws huge crowds


	Italian saint draws huge crowds

arifsali

4-24-2008 3:28 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/14c1e40e-6ed9-4f2c-9ca8-1f1fd36e70bd/7E3873C8-2513-48BB-BEE0-607E25325556/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm">The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, has attracted thousands of pilgrims after going on display in a southern Italian town 40 years after his death.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/english.aljazeera.net/img/3268C39D-45C4-46F9-951A-9D473FDE33D9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm">Padre Pio, one of the Catholic church's most popular saints, is said to have the stigmata, the wounds of Jesus's crucifixion on his hands and feet.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm">The saint's body, displayed in a crystal sepulcher, was unveiled in a church in San Giovanni Rotondo on Thursday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm"><DIV>About 15,000 people attended an open air mass before the body was unveiled in the church where Padre Pio spent most of his life. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm"><DIV>Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's sainthood in the church, led the mass.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC72E1B2-F068-4711-B1D7-F68A50B0F094.htm"><FONT size="2">"Today, we venerate his body, opening a particularly intense period of<BR />pilgrimage,'' Saraiva Martins said.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E3873C8-2513-48BB-BEE0-607E25325556/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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