This happened during the years of World War I. One night, Padre Pio was sitting alone absorbed in prayer. An old man entered and sat next to him. Padre Pio plainly described the incident. “I looked at him but never thought of how he had managed to get in the friary at that hours. I asked him: ‘Who are you? What do you want?’ The man answered: ‘Padre Pio, I am Pietro di Mauro, nicknamed Precoco. I died in this friary on September 18, 1908, in room number 4, when this friary was still a home for the elderly. When in bed one night, I fell asleep with my cigar burning. My bed caught fire and I died. I suffocated and burned alive. I am still in Purgatory, and I need a Mass to free my soul from it. God has given me permission to come to you and ask for your prayers.’
After I had listened to his story I said: “You can rest assured that I will celebrate Mass tomorrow for your liberation.”
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