Magic of a Mystic

New York, NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Large octavo with dark grey and brown boards in grey and orange pictorial jacket; 206p; illustrations; maps; 23cm Near fine in a very good (+) jacket, now in archival mylar. Circle sticker to front jacket flap. . Hardcover. ISBN: 051754847X

"Padre Pio (1887-1968) is, to date, the only ordained Roman Catholic priest ever to receive the stigmata--the bodily wounds on the hands, feet, and side corresponding to those inflicted on Jesus at the crucifixion. In constant pain, Padre Pio carried the open, bleeding wounds for fifty years. And although he rarly left the small friary in the remote Italian village of San Giovanni Rotondo where he spent his entire apostolate, his stigmata and mystical powers of spiritual and physical healing drew hundreds of thousands from every corner of the globe. [...] Magic of a Mystic is an informal and personal portrait of Padre Pio by the Duchess of St. Albans, who made her own pilgrimage to San Giovanni, where she spent a year talking to his friends and followers, gathering stories and learning firsthand what this extraordinary man was really like."--Jacket copy