San Pio Father Pio III Italian Tapestry

San Pio Father Pio III Italian Tapestry

San Pio Father Pio III is an Italian jacquard wall tapestry. Pio of Pietrelcina commonly known as Padre Pio, (1887 –1968) was a friar, priest, stigmatist and mystic of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Padre Pio became famous for bearing the stigmata for most of his life. This condition generated much interest and controversy around him. He is now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.