I must correct something I said in my first response......

Ironically.....hubby, SUPERPIPE and I were just talking about this last Saturday afternoon, and then I got a PM from Sugarsprinkles about the very same topic.....yesterday!

I wasn't born around here and when I heard the story of Padre Pio.....for some reason I was under the impression that he was either local or that he had immigrated here around the time of his stigmata affliction. Well..come to find out (from both sources...SS and hubby and friend) that he never lived here (in my neighborhood), but was an Italian native. A church had been errected, locally, by his followers in his honor. Hubby remembers an episode of the TV show "In Search Of", where Padre Pio was standing in front of a church and in the background you could see the landscape of a quarry.....and he instinctively knew where this quarry was. It's right here...in the town I live in now. It's down a road in Barto that I never travel and would only go specifically to see the church. What I do know now, is that the padre at least visited this church at some time in his life. So....I appologize for my ignorance on Padre Pio! I still make the promise to dicksbro to visit it and take picks for him.....and I will as soon as I get another cam!

Well....anyway....I just had to say that!