Now acclaimed historian Sergio Luzzatto offers a pioneering investigation of this remarkable man and his followers. Were they truly God-given? A psychosomatic response to extreme devotion? Or, perhaps, the self-inflicted wounds of a charlatan? Most notable of all were his stigmata, which provoke heated controversy to this day.
His miraculous feats included the ability to fly and to be present in two places at once an apparition of Padre Pio in midair prevented Allied warplanes from dropping bombs on his hometown. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. With narrative verve and scholarly acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point them to a real future.The first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint Moshe's Children also explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his work there before the war. Although these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home, and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy, where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to become citizens of the new nation of Israel. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution.
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