WOW! PADRE PIO COULD TRILOCATE

Padre Pio lived with a younger friar, Padre Pellegrino and had a long history with him. Pellegrino was big eyed with bushy eyebrows and also a bit of a pest. He was unashamedly 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 also present in Berlin or Paris. 

Pellegrino in his memoirs admitted that envy drove him to attempt to curtail Pio's mystical trips by urging Pio mischievously to always 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, imagine his bitter emotions upon learning of Pio's triple trips! 

Wow, Padre Pio is an embarrassment of riches, a mystic of so many marvels that I, for one, can scarcely keep up with understanding his myriad gifts. 

I have found no mention on the internet of Pio's ability to trilocate, to be in three places at once, so that he could serve three sets of souls in three separate locations simultaneously. I think the first time it got mentioned online was today in my appearance on Alvaro Interiano's podcast, Uniquely Mystic. 

While I knew when I was writing my book, Padre Pio and You,  that Pio could trilocate, I concentrated on his ability to bilocate to lay a foundation, as well as describing how his first spiritual daughter's bilocated to assist at Padre Pio's death. Like father, like daughter. 

Oh, and big-eyed Pellegrino was the primary assistant helping Pio on his deathbed. By then he'd gotten over his petty, resentful ways. 

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This post was informed by Padre Pellegrino Funicelli's Padre Pio's Jack of All Trades, San Giovanni Rotondo, 1991, page 27