For many years, the Saint Pio Foundation and the Municipality of Pietrelcina, the town of Saint Pio, have beenworking together to foster devotion to Saint Pio, and at the same time to promote the town where Saint Pio was born and lived during his youth.
In order to strengthen and consolidate the ties of friendship and cooperation which have developed between their respective administrations and communities, Luciano Lamonarca, Founder and CEO of the Saint Pio Foundation, and Mr. Salvatore Mazzone, Mayor of Pietrelcina, met to sign a first collaboration agreement, on Saturday, February 17, 2024, signed in the Mayor's office, convinced that these goals can be achieved through collaboration and the mutual exchange of information, knowledge, and experience in the above mentioned areas.
Among the goals of the Saint Pio Foundation is that of supporting the town with the renovation and implementation of those areas so dear to Saint Pio and to facilitate pilgrimages and visits of tourists from all over the world, to help them discover the places where Saint Pio lived, prayed and forged his holiness.