Padre Pio prays for a mother Paolina Preziosi and saves her from double pneumonia

Emanuele Brunatto and many others, including Padre Pio, tell of an extraordinary event that occurred on Holy Saturday 1925, in the small town where he lived Paolina Preziosi. Paolina was a very devout mother of a family, so much so that Padre Pio himself often quoted her, saying that her conscience was so pure that it embarrassed even her confessor. It was really difficult to find sins to confess, because Pauline was guiltless.

During Lent of that year, Paolina fell ill seriously double pneumonia, with complications that brought her close to death. Doctors had declared her condition to be critical and that she was at life risk. Paolina's husband, together with their five children, was desperate and begged Padre Pio to help their beloved mother. But the saint, despite the pain he felt, did not respond. Paolina's friends had joined her children to ask for itintervention of Padre Pio and beg for Paolina to be saved.

Paolina Preziosi resurrects on Easter Sunday

In a sudden and abrupt change of personality, Padre Pio said that Paolina would be resurrected on Easter Sunday and that they just had to pray. The Good Friday Paolina's condition worsened, so much so that she lost consciousness. At the dawn of Holy Saturday, went into a coma. Some family members, desperate, ran to the monastery to make a final moving appeal to Padre Pio, but as soon as they left, Paolina no longer showed signs of life.

Those who remained with her in the house, believing that she was dead, hurried to look for her wedding dress, to dress her as she desired for the last time.

At the same time, whileand Emanuele Brunatto When Padre Pio arrived at the convent, he grabbed his arm and shouted at him to pray, as the woman was dying. Meanwhile, in the church, the crowd of faithful, relatives and friends of Paolina he cried and prayed out loud, but suddenly silence fell when Padre Pio, pale and suffering, appeared in the altar choir.

Meanwhile, in the country, Paolina Preziosi open your eyes, he threw off the covers, got out of bed, knelt on the floor and recited aloud the "Credo” three times in a row. This miraculous event occurred during the Easter vigil on April 12, 1925.

Some time later, Emanuele spoke to the woman who told him that that morning she felt as if she had been torn away by a wonderful light.