Giorgio Festa

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Giorgio Festa (Rome 1860- Frascati 1940) was an Italian physician.

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Giorgio Festa is known for being Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's personal doctor. In 1919 he was assigned by the Minister of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin to do a medical examination on Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. [1] In 1920 Festa went to San Giovanni Rotondo for a medical check on some Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's injures he had observed the month before. [2] On 5 October 1925 he operated Saint Pio of Pietrelcina on the right inguinal hernia and in 1927 he removed a cyst, which was on Saint Pio's sternocleidomastoid muscle. [3] In 1938 he published his visits results in "Misteri di scienza e luci di fede. Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina". [4] In 1940 he died in an hotel in Frascati, where he was on holiday together with his wife Silvia and his two daughters Carmela and Maria Luisa. [5] He was buried in the monumental cemetery of Campo Verano, in Rome. [6]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, p. 146
  2. ↑ Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, pp. 11-147
  3. ↑ Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, pp. 36-149
  4. ↑ Festa, Misteri di scienza e luci di fede. Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina; Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, p. 149
  5. ↑ Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, p. 150
  6. ↑ Festa, La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio, p. 150

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