Padre Pio bracelet

The Padre Pio bracelet centers a single small oval Padre Pio medal in silver tone on a handwoven cord — a devotional bracelet to Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the Capuchin friar whose pierced hands defined twentieth-century Catholic mysticism. Born Francesco Forgione on May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, Italy, he entered the Capuchin Franciscans at fifteen and was ordained a priest in 1910. On the morning of September 20, 1918, while praying in the choir loft of the Church of Our Lady of Grace at San Giovanni Rotondo, he received the visible stigmata — the first priest in the history of the Church to bear them, which he carried for fifty years until his death. He spent twelve to fifteen hours a day in the confessional and was credited with bilocation, reading hearts, prophecy, and miraculous healings. In 1956 he founded the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza — the Home for the Relief of Suffering — today one of Italy’s leading research hospitals. Beatified on May 2, 1999 and canonized on June 16, 2002 by Pope John Paul II — who had once confessed to him as a young priest in 1948 — Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968, his last whispered words «Gesù, Maria!», the stigmata disappearing without trace. His feast is September 23, and his most famous Padre Pio prayer remains the simplest of all: «Pray, hope, and don’t worry» («Prega, spera e non ti agitare»).

Each Padre Pio bracelet features a single oval Padre Pio medal in silver tone, produced in Italy and hand-knotted onto a woven Medjugorje cord — the simpler everyday counterpart to the multi-medal Padre Pio medal bracelet. Available in 15 cord colors for parish gift shops, Italian-American parishes, Capuchin and Franciscan friaries, Catholic schools, Confirmation gifts, pilgrimage agencies serving San Giovanni Rotondo, and devotional wholesale. Supplied in packs of 10.

Handwoven in Medjugorje by women who pray as they tie each knot, every Padre Pio bracelet from MIRJAM DOO carries devotion at its source — Italian medal, Bosnian hands, in honour of the saint who taught the world to pray, to hope, and not to worry.