INVITATION TO PRESS CONFERENCE “PHOTOGRAPHS OF SAINT PIO – MEMORIES OF A SAINT”

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, and to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Saint Pio Foundation, the aforementioned Foundation, with the patronage of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication and the Dicastery for Education and Culture, invites you to the press conference “Photographs of Saint Pio – Memories of a Saint”, to be held on Monday 29 April, at 12 noon, at the Vatican Film Library in Vatican City.

Moderator: Cecilia Seppia, journalist for Vatican Radio – Vatican News

Speakers:

Archbishop Felice Accrocca of Benevento
Elia Stelluto, personal photographer of Saint Pio
Dr. Andrea Tornielli, Editorial Director, Dicastery for Communication
Luciano Lamonarca, tenor and founder and CEO of the Saint Pio Foundation

ACCREDITATION PROCEDURE

Journalists and media operators who wish to attend must apply, up to 48 hours before the event, via the Holy See Press Office online accreditation system, at: press.vatican.va/accreditamenti

Please use the Sant’Uffizio entrance to access the Vatican Film Library

The Saint Pio Foundation, together with Elia Stelluto, personal photographer of Saint Pio, will announce during the course of the press conference that ten authentic photographs of Saint Pio, some of them unpublished, and immortalised by Stelluto himself, with the permission granted at the time by the Holy Friar, will be made available to the Catholic people and devotees of Saint Pio, through a dedicated website and free of charge.