Thoughtful Stories To Begin Your Day POSTS LIKES ASK ME ANYTHING ARCHIVE Padre Pio Suffering with the Crown of Thorns With Image: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/padre-pio-suffering-crown-thorns-harold-baines/?published=t “We are bidden by St. Paul to join our sufferings to supplement the sufferings of Christ for the redemption of the world.” - Father John Hardon, S.J. (Caption for image) In a letter to Padre Agostino dated January 1912, six years before the permanent stigmatization, Padre Pio wrote, “From Thursday evening until Saturday is a time of suffering, of great suffering. The whole scene of the Passion is presented to me and imagine if any consolation can exist in the midst of all this.” Capuchin Brother Modestino of Pietrelcina was close to Padre Pio for many years and was an eyewitness to his many sufferings. He left this testimony: “In January of 1945, when still not many people came to San Giovanni Rotondo, I used to serve Padre Pio’s Mass at dawn, with ...