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Marko Rupnik says: “The world is understood only in light. Things, objects, nature and man himself are only understood in the light. According to the Creator and His Wisdom, the truth is the light of the world and all that exists. But man cannot look at the light. It would be too much! The source of light is behind and beyond. Here are the colors. The experience of light is the colors festival!”Yes, the colors. Marko Rupnik says: “When matter exudes light, it tinges with color. The colors testify the world soul. Things are alive and the universe has its own heart. The color is the flesh of the world. The color is related to the universe matter. The universe is colorful. In a certain sense, it is the color. But is the light that makes us seeing it. The color and the light: they are an indivisible unity.”

Father Marko Ivan Rupnik is a Slovenian Jesuit (born November 28, 1954), based in Rome, whose mosaics adorn churches at Fatima and Lourdes, in Madrid, Rome or Milan, in Cluj-Napoca Romania as well as the Pope’s private chapel in Vatican.The website for the Centro Aletti displays him and his workshop`s works in abundance

Joaqin and Ana Chiesa di San Floriano Krnice, Slovenia

The new pilgrimage church of Padre Pio at San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy

The wall of the ramp leading to the lower church and the crypt are adorned with magnificent mosaics. They depict stories from the life of St. Francis, Padre Pio, the Gospel, and the Old Testament.

AnnunciationMaria trust the word of the angel and the Word comes to live in her womb.

Nativity

Crucifixion

St. Francis stripped himself before his father

The Baptism of St. Francis

St. Francis kissing the leper Padre Pio contemplates St.Francis, the alter Christus(Man becomes what it contemplates)

Padre Pio-crucified with Christ;By the grace and love St. Pio is joined to the cross at the hour of supreme solitude

Padre Pio beaten by the devil is consoled by the Child Jesus

St. Francis cries in the woods the love of God is not loved

St. Francis turns water into wine

Padre Pio at home, sick San Michele blessed Padre Pio

Padre Pio fought with a giant black

St. Francis on the threshold of the sanctuary in Monte San Michele

The vision of San Damiano

The vision of San Damiano

St. Francis prays in the grotto Padre Pio pray before the crucifix on the altar

St. Francis preaching to the birds Padre Pio, interdict, celebrating alone

St. Francis tempted by the devil, hidden in the pillow

St. Francis sent to preach repentance and mercy

Padre Pio in the confessional

St. Francis appears to the monks in a fiery chariot

St. Francis proclaims the Gospel to the Sultan

St. Francis proclaims the Gospel to the Sultan

Padre Pio carries the bread and wine to Cardinal Mindszenty prisoner

St. Francis brings the bread to a monk who imitates him in fasting

Padre Pio in fraternal coexistence

Padre Pio in fraternal coexistencePadre Pio bless the men and women of culture

Padre Pio bless the men and women of culture (detail)

Padre Pio attend to correspondence

Fatherhood of Padre Pio, prayer groupsS. Francis present to the Lord the second and third order Franciscan

S. Francis hears the music of the angels

Padre Pio and the House for the Relief of Suffering

In 1940, Padre Pio began plans to open a hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, to be named the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza or "Home to Relieve Suffering". The hospital opened in 1956. Barbara Ward, a British humanitarian and journalist on assignment in Italy, played a major role in obtaining for this project a grant of $325,000 from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). In order that Padre Pio might directly supervise this project, Pope Pius XII, in 1957 granted him dispensation from his vow of poverty. Padre Pio's detractors used this project as another weapon to attack him, charging him with misappropriation of funds

May 5, 1956  grand opening of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Home for the relief of Suffering. The Home for the Relief of Suffering was one of the best equipped hospitals in all of Italy.

Trust and hope in the merits of Jesus, and so even the humble clay will become pure gold to shine in the palace of the King of heaven

Padre Pio on the threshold of paradise

Entry into the crypt with the Descent into Hell

The crypt of the Lower church of St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Via Crucis

Sound: Il Cantico delle Creature - Angelo Branduardi

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