deaths
September 23, 1968
Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (born 1887)
Padre Pio
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, Latin: Pater Pius, was an Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, celebrated on 23 September.