Giorgio Festa (

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Biography

Giorgio Festa is known for being Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's personal doctor. In 1919 he was assigned by the Minister of the

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to do a medical examination on Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. In 1920 Festa went to

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for a medical check on some Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's injures he had observed the month before. On 5 October 1925 he operated Saint Pio of Pietrelcina on the right inguinal hernia and in 1927 he removed a cyst, which was on Saint Pio's sternocleidomastoid muscle. In 1938 he published his visits results in ''"Misteri di scienza e luci di fede. Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina"''. In 1940 he died in an hotel in Frascati, where he was on holiday together with his wife Silvia and his two daughters Carmela and Maria Luisa. He was buried in the monumental cemetery of

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, in Rome.Festa, ''La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio'', p. 150

Bibliography

* Al Festa, ''La Grande Luce. Padre Pio - tra scienza e fede. La storia che ha dato origine al mistero di Padre Pio'', Sail Productions srl, Roma 2002. * Giorgio Festa, ''Misteri di scienza e luci di fede. Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina'', Ferri, Roma 1938.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Festa, Giorgio 1860 births 1940 deaths Italian surgeons