{"id":192372,"date":"2026-05-14T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192372\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:53:09","slug":"faithful-take-pilgrimage-to-national-centre-for-padre-pio-diocese-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192372\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful take pilgrimage to National Centre for Padre Pio \u2013 Diocese of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWOYERSVILLE \u2013 On May 9, 2026, the Swoyersville Council Knights of Columbus made a bus pilgrimage from Swoyersville to the National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council\u2019s Grand Knight Mark Perugino, the day was inspirational including: Reconciliation, Mass, blessing with Padre Pio\u2019s relics, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Lunch, Tour through the Saint Padre Pio Museum, and a film on the founding of the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre was founded by Vera Calandra whose one daughter was healed by Padre Pio in 1968, a miracle that helped usher in the Saint\u2019s Canonization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Knights-of-Columbus-Swoyersville-Pilgrimage-to-Padre-Pio-2026-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"865\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWOYERSVILLE \u2013 On May 9, 2026, the Swoyersville Council Knights of Columbus made a bus pilgrimage from Swoyersville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-192372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}