The Rosary Ministry at Blessed Sacrament and St Margaret is under the guidance of our spiritual patron, St. Padre Pio, who championed the Rosary asking Mary to intercede with God. St. Pio used the power of the Rosary as a powerful spiritual weapon to defeat evil doers.

When praying daily the Holy Rosary to the Blessed Mother, God also grants powerful, amazing miracles of healing to many of the sick and suffering who seek help. Hundreds of healings have been attributed to St. Pio, both during his lifetime and since his death.

St. Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin Franciscan Friar and one of the greatest mystics of the 20th century. For 50 years his body was marked with the stigmata, the same five wounds that Jesus Christ bore on the cross of Calvary.

Beatified: May 2, 1999 by St. John Paul II

Canonized: June 16, 2002 by St. John Paul II

Feast Day: September 23

There is more info in the "Champions of the Rosary" by Donald Calloway, MIC.