The statue of Saint Padre Pio is missing from San Antonio Italian Church in South Fairmount, officials said. Vincent Cerchio, a church volunteer who had the statue sent over from Italy himself to ...

The eight-foot-tall solid bronze statue stood at the Museum of Padre Pio. The museum welcomes many of the Catholic faith who seek blessings from St. Pio, the Italian Capuchin friar, who died in 1968.

BARTO – Any hope the Padre Pio center had of getting back their Angel of Roses was dashed Monday morning when state police found the brass statue had been chopped up by thieves and sold for less ...