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In fact, he said that “more souls of the dead than of the living climb this mountain to attend my masses and to seek my prayers.” He told stories of souls who had come to him in visible human form to ask for his intercession.

The year was 1968, and the occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of the day he had received the stigmata. He was known to read souls, to see heavenly apparitions, to bilocate, and to obtain miraculous cures.What a reciprocal blessing of unity in the Body of Christ!When Padre Pio asked that his brothers pray for his soul, he was no stranger to the souls in Purgatory.There is nothing I would not do or suffer to help them. Margaret Mary writes of her “dear suffering friends,” the phrase resonates with me.I’ve spent so many hours near tombstones that the souls now feel like old friends.