Mary gives Padre Pio a spiritual daughter

It was January 18, 1905, in Italy. Padre Pio remembers: I was in the choir with Brother Anastasio, at about 11 o’clock pm, when I suddenly found myself in an upper-class home where a father was dying, and at the same time a child was born. The Most Blessed Virgin Mary appeared and said to me:

‘I entrust this creature to you. She is like a diamond in the rough, you will need to polish her until she shines beautifully, because one day I want to add her to my crown.

She will seek you out, but first you will meet her in St Peter’s.”

After this I found myself again in the choir.

The rest of the story is equally amazing. Giovanna Rizzani, whose birth Padre Pio had seen on January 18, 1905, went to St Peter's Basilica in Rome one afternoon in the year 1922, and went to confession to a Capuchin monk she had never met and who advised her to go to San Giovanni Rotondo. She went there and was quite surprised to recognize that the Capuchin who had heard her confession in St Peter's was Padre Pio himself!

The holy monk surprised her even more when he told her that he had witnessed her birth in Udine, describing to her in detail the house where she was born. Giovanna became a Third Order Franciscan and a devout spiritual daughter of Padre Pio. 

Summary by Anthony Birolini

Source: Yves Chiron, Padre Pio le stigmatisé (Padre Pio is Stigmatized)