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A woman testified: "My husband was taken to the hospital in Taranto with life threatening
injuries after a car accident. After several days of no improvement I prayed Padre Pio. I smelled
a marvelous perfume of lily. From then on my husband made a fast recovery.”

Perfume after a telegram:
On October 1949 Maria Galiano was about to die from uterine adenocarcinoma. The daughter
sent a telegram and 2 letters to Padre Pio. On April 29 1950 Maria smelled an intense perfume.
It lasted for 2 days. The third day she felt healed. The doctors run tests and found that 'the
tumor has completely disappeared.”

Perfume for the bishop
The Bishop Carlo Rossi was sent to investigate Padre Pio in 1921. He was particularly
impressed by the perfume, and examined the cell and found only plain soap. “This very
intense and pleasant fragrance, similar to the scent of violet, I have smelled it. It is sensed in
waves, when he walks by, in his spot in the choir, even from a distance. The scent remained
with hair of Padre Pio’s that had been cut two years before, as it also attached itself to the
stigmatic blood and bandages.”300

Giuseppina Marchetti
On July 1930, 24 years old Giuseppina Marchetti had her right arm and shoulder badly
crashed in an accident. Several doctors couldn't help. She went to Padre Pio with her father.
Padre Pio told her: "You will recover." Back home, on September 17, 1932 father and
daughter smelled an intense perfume of daffodils and roses lasting 15 minutes. She felt
healed. An x-ray was perfectly normal. 301 302 303 304 305

Perfume in Pennsylvania:
Robert Hopcke, a Lutheran seminarian, was attending a Catholic Mass with his friend
Vincenzo Mandato. “I remember smelling very distinctly a strong odor of roses just before
the homily, It went away, then it came back during the Creed. It faded and came back
during the Consecration of the Host.” Robert looked around but there was no woman
nearby, and no flowers, and the candles were far away. After Mass Vincenzo asked Robert:
“Did you smell anything during Mass?” They had had the same experience. Later Robert
wanted to report the episode to Vincenzo’s father, Mr. Mandato, who had known Padre Pio
well. Mr. Mandato explained in detail about the perfume of Padre Pio that Robert had
smelled. Robert concluded: “I cannot deny that before I even spoke of what I smelled, Mr.
Mandato had described it perfectly.”306

300 Cas11, 124-6
301 Win88, 118
302 Mor73, 165-6
303 Cat91, 134-5
304 Del62, 120
305 Nap76, 138
306 Ruf91, 320-1

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