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I know Sarah will like this... With great Italian devotion, St. Padre Pio was exhumed last night to be prepared for public veneration during April, marking the 40th anniversary of his death and the 90th anniversary of the first appearance of the controversial stigmata. Times Online's relays: The exhumation - the first time the tomb had been opened since Padre Pio's death in 1968 - was approved by the Vatican despite opposition from some of the saint's most ardent followers. Padre Pio's relatives had threatened to take the local archbishop to court if the corpse was exhumed, and a group of devotees had also threatened legal action. Monsignor Domenico D'Ambrosio, Archbishop of Manfredonia, sai... Enlace permanente.