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Consecrated priest on August 10, 1910 in the Cathedral of Benavento, for health reasons remained in his family until 1916. There in his hometown Gets the early stigmas. In September of the same year he was sent to the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo and remained there until his death. During the first world war, he served in the Italian medical corps (1917-1918). Padre Pio was called the military three times during the first world war and three times was returned after a short period for health reasons. The last time he was called, his health weakened so much that the same doctors gave him low to let you die in peace at his home. The short stays in the military ranks caused the great pains in his soul, because of the hardness of soldiers, the profanity heard and being away from the monastic life.

Another great pain was not able to offer Holy Mass every day.The father was given low from the military ranks with roles that attested to their good conduct, honour and loyalty to the homeland, although it was spared having confronted charges of desertion for failing to appear at an appointment, due to an error of the postman of San Giovanni Rotondo. This didn’t know that Francisco Forgione and Padre Pio were the same person and therefore did not know who give you the quotation. On the new-acropolis.es, says regarding the phenomenon of his wounds, stigmatization, which her body reproduced during the past 50 years of his life the wounds of Christ in hand, feet and side, wounds that were bleeding with a blood red and clean in no time infected during that time. The duration of the stigmata of Padre Pio is the longest of all the known.