03-07-2022, 07:56 AM
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STATUS – No proof it is from St. Pio. This attribution is a forgery / hoax.
In March 1962, Conchita of Garabandal received an anonymous typed letter dated March 3, 1962 from the Capuchin monastery of San Giovanni in Italy.
It has been automatically assumed St. Padre Pio sent the letter, but other than the fact it was typed using one (or two) of the typewriters and bears all the proper stamps from San. Giovanni, there is absolutely NO PROOF St. Pio sent this. It was just assumed.
Since it was typed after 1924, we automatically know it was not from St. Pio.
St. Padre Pio was ordered by his superiors in 1924 he was not to write to anyone, and he obeyed his superior, never writing a letter after that date as Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty writes:
St. Pio would never have sent even an anonymous letter as this would still be disobeying his superiors.
Also, the letter is very strange – the first part with the message is in Italian as would be expected, but the second part is with smudged lettering/ink and in Spanish – which looks like an addition typed on a different typewriter. If the writer could get a Spanish translator, why do the first part of the letter in Italian in the first place?
Also, the letter attempts to promote new mysteries tacked on to the Rosary that are based on the visions of Fatima. This is a major red flag as these 'new mysteries' are not doctrinal or Biblical based, as the true mysteries of the Rosary are, and therefore sounds like an attempt to distract from the real Church approved mysteries of the Rosary.
For instance, in the 'Fourth Mystery' we're supposed to mediate on Our Lady giving the “Secret of Fatima” - the meditation is: “In this fourth mystery we see how the secret of Fatima is the greatest secret of all that she has said” - which is not doctrinal. We are not even required to believe in the visions of Fatima for salvation.
And, why would this 'anonymous' person send Conchita this 'Rosary of Fatima' - when Garabandal is a completely different apparition event, unless someone was trying to force Garabandal into acceptance by linking it to Fatima? If Our Lady wanted new 'Fatima mysteries', why not reveal them at Fatima, or to Sr. Lucia all those years?
People are still angry that [...] John Paul II added the actual Gospel-based Luminous Mysteries to the Rosary, but seem okay with this non-Scriptural addition of an anonymous writer based on an apparition we're not not obliged to believe in instead? Something is definitely wrong.
One site says St. Pio did promote this 'Fatima Rosary' among the prayer groups, but I have found no proof of this. I have no doubt St. Pio encouraged the Rosary and mentioned Our Lady of Fatima, but as to encouraging people to say these new 'Fatima Mysteries' is only hearsay, which is not proof.
Looks like someone was up to devilish tricks at the San Giovanni post room and got their hands on their stationary and two of their typewriters in order to try and make Garabandal look credible. The devil can do awful damage in a monastery as we have seen from the lives of saints and mystics.
This letter attributed to St. Pio is an obvious hoax.
[Emphasis mine.]
!? St. Padre Pio 'Letter' to Conchita Garabandal (1962)
STATUS – No proof it is from St. Pio. This attribution is a forgery / hoax.
In March 1962, Conchita of Garabandal received an anonymous typed letter dated March 3, 1962 from the Capuchin monastery of San Giovanni in Italy.
It has been automatically assumed St. Padre Pio sent the letter, but other than the fact it was typed using one (or two) of the typewriters and bears all the proper stamps from San. Giovanni, there is absolutely NO PROOF St. Pio sent this. It was just assumed.
Since it was typed after 1924, we automatically know it was not from St. Pio.
St. Padre Pio was ordered by his superiors in 1924 he was not to write to anyone, and he obeyed his superior, never writing a letter after that date as Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty writes:
Quote:“Letters supposed to have been written by him after 1924 are AUTOMATICALLY SPURIOUS (i.e automatically known as a fake) by the very fact that Fr. Pio scrupulously and reverently obeyed his superiors who forbade him to write after that year.” (Source: Rev. Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty, “Padre Pio: The Stigmatist”, TAN, 1973).
St. Pio would never have sent even an anonymous letter as this would still be disobeying his superiors.
Also, the letter is very strange – the first part with the message is in Italian as would be expected, but the second part is with smudged lettering/ink and in Spanish – which looks like an addition typed on a different typewriter. If the writer could get a Spanish translator, why do the first part of the letter in Italian in the first place?
Also, the letter attempts to promote new mysteries tacked on to the Rosary that are based on the visions of Fatima. This is a major red flag as these 'new mysteries' are not doctrinal or Biblical based, as the true mysteries of the Rosary are, and therefore sounds like an attempt to distract from the real Church approved mysteries of the Rosary.
For instance, in the 'Fourth Mystery' we're supposed to mediate on Our Lady giving the “Secret of Fatima” - the meditation is: “In this fourth mystery we see how the secret of Fatima is the greatest secret of all that she has said” - which is not doctrinal. We are not even required to believe in the visions of Fatima for salvation.
And, why would this 'anonymous' person send Conchita this 'Rosary of Fatima' - when Garabandal is a completely different apparition event, unless someone was trying to force Garabandal into acceptance by linking it to Fatima? If Our Lady wanted new 'Fatima mysteries', why not reveal them at Fatima, or to Sr. Lucia all those years?
People are still angry that [...] John Paul II added the actual Gospel-based Luminous Mysteries to the Rosary, but seem okay with this non-Scriptural addition of an anonymous writer based on an apparition we're not not obliged to believe in instead? Something is definitely wrong.
One site says St. Pio did promote this 'Fatima Rosary' among the prayer groups, but I have found no proof of this. I have no doubt St. Pio encouraged the Rosary and mentioned Our Lady of Fatima, but as to encouraging people to say these new 'Fatima Mysteries' is only hearsay, which is not proof.
Looks like someone was up to devilish tricks at the San Giovanni post room and got their hands on their stationary and two of their typewriters in order to try and make Garabandal look credible. The devil can do awful damage in a monastery as we have seen from the lives of saints and mystics.
This letter attributed to St. Pio is an obvious hoax.
[Emphasis mine.]
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre