Giorgio Festa

Giorgio Festa (Rome 1860- Frascati 1940) was an Italian physician.

Biography[edit]

Giorgio Festa is known for being Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's personal doctor. In 1919 he was assigned by the Minister of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin to do a medical examination on Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.^[1] In 1920 Festa went to San Giovanni Rotondo for a medical check on some Saint Pio of Pietrelcina's injures he had observed the month before.^[2] 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.^[3] In 1938 he published his visits results in "Misteri di scienza e luci di fede. Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina".^[4] 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.^[5] He was buried in the monumental cemetery of Campo Verano, in Rome.^[6]

Bibliography[edit]

• 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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