An image of Padre Pio hung from a balcony of a derelict building that overlooks the tables of a cafe Naples, Italy..Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Pio da Pietrelcina) was a friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic now venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. .He was both beatified (1999) and canonized (2002) by Pope Saint John Paul II. .