How did Padre Pio die? What were his last words?

On the night between 22 and 23 September 1968, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina passed away. What did one of the most beloved saints in the Catholic world die of?

To provide information on the evening of the death of Padre Pio Pio Miscio, a nurse at the time in force at the Casa Sollievo, took care of it. As you can read on the Aleteia.org site, around two o'clock in the aforementioned night in the cell of the Saint there were Doctor Sala, his doctor, the father superior and some friars who lived at the convent.

Padre Pio he was sitting in his chair, pale in the face and obviously labored breathing. As reported by Pio Miscio, Doctor Scarale put the oxygen mask on the friar's face after removing the feeding tube that passed through his nose.

Interviewed in front of the microphones of Padre Pio TV, Miscio said that, at a certain point, the friar fainted and that before losing consciousness he said the words "Jesus Mary" several times. Also according to what was reported by Miscio, Scarale would have tried several times to revive the religious, but without success.

I mix he specified that, intercepted by a journalist on his way back to the hospital where he was on duty, he was unable to answer and indeed claimed that he could not think of anything at that moment.