Padre Pio's diary: 9 March

Osmogenesis is a charism possessed by some Saints. This charisma, in certain circumstances, allowed them to perceive particular perfumes from a distance or to those close to them.
These perfumes are called smells of holiness. Padre Pio was in possession of this charisma and such phenomena were so frequent for him that ordinary people were used to defining them as the perfumes of Padre Pio.
Often the perfume emanated from his person, from the objects he touched, from his clothes. Other times the scent was perceptible in the places where it passed.

One day a well-known doctor had removed a bandage from the wound on the side of Padre Pio which had been used to dab the blood and had closed it in a case to take it to his laboratory in Rome, to analyze it. During the trip, an officer and other people who were with him said they felt the perfume that usually emanated from Padre Pio. None of those people knew that the doctor had the bandage soaked in Father's blood in his bag. The doctor kept that cloth in his office, and the strange perfume permeated the environment for a long time, so much so that the patients who went for visits asked for explanations.

Today's thought March 9

9. I know you suffer a lot, but aren't these the Groom's jewels?