The Convent and the Museum "Padre Pio"

The story of the construction of the convent is wrapped in a “prophesy.” According to an eyewitness, during one of his usual evening walks, accompanied by seminarians and a young Capuchin monk, the archpriest Don (Father) Salvatore Pannullo “listened more to the talks of Forgione, and he stopped suddenly to ask the others to keep silent and to listen to Forgione. The monk heard a chorus of angels and bells that were ringing in the distance near a place that wasn’t so far away, and he indicated where by stretching out his arm in the direction of the sound.

They remember a young Capuchin monk that had heard them many years before there arose a convent and church for his brother friars in Pietrelcina, and was once open countryside and meeting place for shepherds.

The construction began after some of the town people of Pietrelcina asked Mary Pyle to help them build a convent for the Capuchin Fathers of the province of “Angelo” in their own town. Mary consented to help in this request and spoke with her confessor. “Father, can I help construct a convent in Piertelcina?” Padre Pio  answered her: “Yes, do it right away and dedicate the church to the Holy Family”.