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The Similarities Between Padre Pio and St. Thérèse, by Suzie Andres – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Suzie Andres, Catholic Exchange, September 23, 2024

Suzie Andres, a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and the University of Notre Dame, lives and writes in sunny Southern California. She is the editor of Selected Sermons of Thomas Aquinas McGovern, S.J., and author of Homeschooling with Gentleness, A Little Way of Homeschooling, the Catholic romantic comedy The Paradise Project, Being Catholic: What Every Catholic Should Know, …

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina and Thérèse of Lisieux are among the most famous and popular of modern saints, but few realize how much they have in common. After all, Thérèse lived only twenty-four years, while Pio lived to be eighty-one. She wanted everything she did to be imitable, while he is famous for extraordinary phenomena that put him well beyond imitation by even the most ambitious among us.

And yet, the young French Carmelite and the old Franciscan friar share a whole litany of likenesses, so on this feast of Padre Pio, which is only a novena away from the feast of St. Thérèse, here are a few of their striking similarities.

A most delightful resemblance between Pio and Thérèse is their proximity to us, and by that, I mean two things: first, they both lived in the modern era, so we are blessed to have many photos and anecdotes about them. Second, they both love to appear, literally, to those who call upon them. …

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