Padre Pio Of Pietrelcina: Everybody's Cyrenean by Alessandro of Ripabottoni

Paperback: See what fame he had! What a world-wide clientele gathered around him! But why? Was it because he was a philosopher, because he was a learned man, because he was a man of means? It was because he said Mass humbly, because he confessed from morning to evening; and because, difficult as it is to say, he was a marked representative of the Lord. - Pope Paul VI, 20 February 1971

This edition is edited by Fr Francesco D Colacelli and printed by Leone Arti Grafiche SRLS-Foggia in May 2016. 

Its original title is San Pio da Pietrelcina: Cireneo di tutti and is translated from the Italian by Geraldine Nolan. 

It was purchased in the town of San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. 

About the author: Alessandro of Ripabottoni, a capuchin friar of the religious province "Sant'Angelo and Padre Pio" (in the world Raffaele Cristofaro), was born in Ripabottoni on 5 January 1920 and he died a Campobasso on 15 November 2002. 

After he was vested in the habit of St Francis in 1937, the following year, he made his simple vows and in 1941, he took his perpetual vows. He was ordained priest on 17 February 1946 at Campobasso and he continued his studies until 1955, when he obtained his doctorate in Canon Law from the Gregorian university in Rome. He is considered one of the best historian of the capuchin religious province. His research and studies on Padre Pio, as well as having been fundamental for the process of beatification and canonisation, have been translated in many languages. The most important work being Padre Pio's, Letters that consists of four volumes of letters sent and received by Padre Pio, and edited by Fr Alessandro of Ripabottoni and Fr Melchiorre of Pobladura. 

Other books written by him are Padre Pio Recounts (only in Italian), Many Have Written Of Him, a bibliography on Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (only in Italian) and Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a biographical profile. The present volume is the synthesis of a larger work with a similar title: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Everybody's Cyrenean (980 pages, only in Italian and no longer in print).