St. Pio of Pietrelcina’s devotion to the Blessed Mother inspired St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito to host a public tour of five relics of the saint the weekend of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8.  
“I have this personal belief that anything we ask from Jesus through his mother Mary gets VIP attention,” Father Mike Quinn, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. “Padre Pio had that same disposition.”
 
“Padre Pio,” as he is more commonly known, was born Francesco Forgione in Italy in 1887 and became a Capuchin Franciscan at age 15. When he was 31, the five wounds of Christ’s crucifixion appeared on his body, making him the first stigmatized priest in the history of the Catholic Church