Beniamino Gigli
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Beniamino Gigli was an Italian opera singer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tenors of his generation.
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Beniamino Gigli in the 1920s
Beniamino Gigli in Tosca, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1942-1946.
Padre Pio
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Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, and his feas
Beniamino Gigli
…fund-raising concerts and raised more money than any other singer in history, with close to one thousand benefit concerts. He was deeply devoted to Padre Pio, his confessor, to whom he donated a large amount of money. Also, Gigli sang an unusual amount of sacred music (especially in the 1950s), atypical of…
Official portrait photograph of Padre Pio, c. 1947
Church-shrine (Padre Pio's own church), San Giovanni Rotondo
Padre Pio's monastery cell, San Giovanni Rotondo
Image of Our Lady of Graces, San Giovanni Rotondo