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Padre Pio’s body to be exhumed
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the death of Padre Pio, Italy’s favourite saint, his body will be exhumed, given a “check-up” and put on display for a few months, church leaders have decided.Renowned for his stigmata and miracle work, St Pius – still known as Padre Pio by his followers – was canonised in 2002 to popular acclaim and around 7 million pilgrims visit his tomb annually at the friary in Puglia, southern Italy, where he died in 1968.
To mark the anniversary of his death, the local archbishop, Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio, said on Sunday that the Capuchin friar’s body would be exhumed from its tomb at the sanctuary church “to check on the state of it and to carry out all the necessary work to guarantee the best conditions for its conservation.”
When the work is completed, the body will go on display in April for “a few months”
The exhumation of the saint, who was credited with more than 1,000 miracle cures, has been approved by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The Congregation’s prefect, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, told Il Giornale yesterday that the exhumation was a standard procedure to check on the state of the body of a beatified or canonised person, and had been undertaken in 2001 on the body of the Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and was beatified, one step before sainthood.
The practice has its origins in the need to confirm that tombs of saints-to-be contain the right body. Check-ups on the body’s state of preservation and the removal of relics are reasons given by applicants to the congregation for later exhumations.
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Dog saves boy from fire by biting foot
PORTAGE, Ind. – A black Labrador that bit a 13-year-old boy’s foot repeatedly, waking him up, is being credited with saving the boy and two of his friends from a house fire. Christopher Peebles said he woke up Friday morning to feel his dog Laney biting his foot repeatedly in the basement of his family’s home, where he and two friends had spent the night.
“I thought she had to go to the bathroom, but she never bites me,” Peebles said Friday.
He and his friends walked upstairs with Laney and noticed smoke everywhere in the home.
“We came up the stairs and thought it was a dream, but it was cold when we opened the door — then we knew it wasn’t a dream,” Pebbles said.
Can I get my 5-month-old daughter photographed with every presidential candidate?
As a resident of the “Live Free or Die” state, I’ll concede that the New Hampshire presidential primary gives us ridiculously disproportionate influence. But I love the fact that my state’s electoral power comes with a great fringe benefit: It’s easy to enshrine the next president in your family scrapbook. A sucker for political kitsch, I set out to photograph my 5-month-old daughter, Dahlia, in the arms of every candidate with a prayer of making it to the White House.My rules were simple:
1. No actual kissing. No Democrat or Republican is putting saliva on Baby Dahlia.
2. No pictures with former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. He’s way too creepy.
