Think you know a lot about St. Padre Pio (+ September 23, 1968)? Think again—Irish expat writer Mary O'Regan has penned a terrific biography of the famous Italian stigmatist.

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It's moving, factual, and balanced. See the time stamp (below) for the rich content of this conversation, published on Pio's anniversay and Feast Day.

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TIME STAMPS:

0:00 – Introducing Padre Pio & Mary O'Regan's New Biography
1:26 – Padre Pio's Parents: Grazio and Giuseppa's Love Story
5:00 – The Wedding Day Wine: A Confession 23 Years Later
7:09 – The "Lure of the Whisker": A Boy's Vow to Become a Friar
8:13 – Padre Thomas: The Brutal Novice Master Who Tested Him
10:14 – First Bilocation: Padre Pio's Mystical Journey to a Dying Man
16:38 – Trilocation Explained: Multiplying Like the Eucharist
17:15 – The Transverberation: Padre Pio's First Wound of Christ
19:01 – Dark Night of the Soul Before Every Mystical Milestone
21:04 – Receiving the Stigmata: September 20th and the Blazing Blade
22:12 – Why Public Stigmata Was Padre Pio's Greatest Suffering
22:51 – Named Twice: The Story Behind His Mother's Vow to St. Francis
25:13 – A Mother's Heartbreak: Padre Pio's Cold Treatment of Giuseppa
27:14 – Jealousy Among Superiors & the Danger of Fame
30:04 – Family Dysfunction: Alcoholism, Affairs & Hidden Suffering
31:36 – Felicita: Padre Pio's Favorite Sister and Her Betrayal
33:54 – Forgiveness on Her Deathbed: The Story of Felicita and Vincenzo
36:56 – Should Felicita Be Canonized? A Cause for Sainthood
37:29 – Father Mishio's Blackmail Scheme Against the Family
39:29 – Mary O'Regan's First Mystical Encounter With Padre Pio at 14
44:04 – Struck by a Truck: A Near-Death Experience and Conversion
47:20 – Padre Pio's Role in Ending the Second Vatican Council
50:23 – Padre Pio's Final Mass and the Coming of the Novus Ordo
52:28 – Reviewing the Abel Ferrara Padre Pio Film with Shia LaBeouf
56:03 – How to Become Padre Pio's Spiritual Son or Daughter
59:19 – Padre Pio's Secret Role in Writing Humanae Vitae
1:02:44 – Padre Pio and You: Where to Find Mary O'Regan's Book