Letter from Padre Pio where he speaks of the influence of the devil

Letter to father Augustine of 18 November 1912

… ”The enemy almost doesn't want to abandon me anymore, he knocks on me constantly. He tries to poison my life with his infernal pitfalls. He is extremely sorry because I am telling you. He is suggesting that I forget to tell you what goes between me and him, and insinuates me rather to tell you about good visits; being, he says, the only ones you can like and build. - ... the archpriest, made aware of the battle of these unclean apostates, regarding what concerns your letters, advised me that at your first letter that I received, I would go and open it by him. So I did in receiving your last one. But open that we had it, we found it all smeared with ink. Was this also a Bluebeard's revenge? I can never believe that you sent it this way, also because my cecaggine is known to you. The letters written in the beginning seem illegible, but behind that we placed the Crucifix on it, a little light shone so much that we could read it, although hardly ... "