Saint Pio Chapels

Welcome to the homepage of the Saint Pio Chapels. On this webpage, you will find everything you need to know about the Saint Pio Chapels established by the Saint Pio Foundation, in partnership with Archdioceses and Dioceses in the United States of America.

Our hope is that you will offer prayers for Saint Pio’s intercession, and, if you are able, that you will elect to travel to any of the Saint Pio Chapels, and have a spiritual encounter with Saint Pio, in the presence of an authentic first-class relic.

At the core of this initiative, the first of a series launched the occasion of the Foundation’s 10th anniversary, is to offer to the many faithful around the country the opportunity to access the Chapel closer to their home, and thus facilitate their pilgrimage and spiritual encounter with Saint Pio. In doing so, the Foundation’s vision is that of fulfilling Padre Pio’s own desire when he said, “I am everyone's everything. Each of you can say: “Padre Pio is mine!”

Each Saint Pio Chapel is a place of worship, where all are invited to pray before the relic of Saint Pio, to ask for his intercession for your journeys and spiritual needs.

THE FIRST CLASS RELIC OF SAINT PIO

In the Catholic Church, relics are physical objects associated with a saint or candidate for sainthood – part of the person’s body or something with which he or she was in contact. Relics are not worshipped but treated with religious respect. Touching or praying in the presence of such an object helps a faithful individual focus on the saint’s life and virtues, so that through the saint’s prayer and intercession before God, the individual will be drawn closer to God.

A first-class relic of Saint Pio exhibited in each Saint Pio’s Chapel is a part of a cloth used to cleanse the wounds of the Saint, stained with blood.