Padre Pio: Powerful Saint or Prosthetic Fraud?!
Series The History of the Papacy
The body of the famous Italian saint, Padre Pio, has been exhumed from its grave by the Roman Catholic authorities and put on public display inside a glass coffin at San Giovanni Rotondo, in Puglia, Italy.
At least 800,000 devotees have registered to visit the body - a response that has encouraged the Roman Catholic authorities to keep the body on display until September 2009.
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Examines, in the light of Scripture, the Roman Catholic practice of the worship/veneration of saints;
Recounts another case in history when the Roman Catholic Church exhumed a body after it had lain over 40 years in its grave - that belonging to English Reformer, John Wycliffe;
Sketches the stark contrast between Padre Pio (dead, and lying in his coffin) - with our Risen and all-powerful Lord Jesus Christ. (Why do many people pray more to Pio than to Jesus?!)
N.B. Should you wish to check up on this ghoulish sight ...
(1) Padre Pio being exhumed:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQKQORjhbg&feature=related
(2) Padre Pio's body on display:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P42gGxiTsPk
| Sermon ID | 52908441350 |
| Duration | 44:24 |
| Date | May 25, 2008 |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | 1 Chronicles 16:26; Acts 14:8-20; Acts 17:16-29 |