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Padre Pio lived with a younger friar, Padre Pellegrino and had a long history with him. Pellegrino was big eyed with bushy eyebrows and was also a pest.  He was stubbornly jealous of Padre Pio's ability to bilocate, to be in two places at once so that Pio could be in his cell in the monastery, and simultaneously present in Berlin or Paris. Pio had endless frequent flyer miles of the mystical variety.  Pellegrino in his memoirs admitted that envy drove him to attempt to curtail Pio's mystical voyages. He urged Pio mischievously to ask permission of their superiors before making his trips by way of bilocation. Pio was composed and cool-headed and defended himself thus, "If it is true that my person is in several places, by bilocation, by trilocation , you must ask God and not me. I can only tell you that I endeavor to remain always attached to the thread of His will. For that reason I find myself always where I am." And if Pellegrino was miffed Pio could bilocate, imagi...