Bess writes:
He has admitted, as we report, with considerable understatement that he is "not a saint" … and now The EarthTimes refers to a story in la Repubblica that Silvio Berlusconi, shamed by the revelation of orgies at his private villa is thought to be planning a pilgrimage of atonement after the Summer holiday. He is also said to be planning to sell Villa Certosa, scene of his wild exploits, before in what might justifiably be viewed as a desperate bid to recoup his shattered reputation, embarking on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Padre Pio, one of Italy’s best-loved saints. St Padre Pio, a Franciscan mystic who died in 1968, is famous for having suffered the stigmata, or physical wounds of Christ. He claimed to have had a vision at the end of the First World War in which Jesus appeared to him and pierced his side, and is also said to have had the gift of bi-locating. St Pio is associated with radical spiritual conversions. Could be just the spiritual makeover Berlusconi needs??
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