Padre Pio officiates the Saintly Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo on May 5, 1956, the day the House for the Relief of Suffering opens its doors, a building that he planned in the 1940s and fough... Read allPadre Pio officiates the Saintly Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo on May 5, 1956, the day the House for the Relief of Suffering opens its doors, a building that he planned in the 1940s and fought to build, a hospital that serves 60,000 a year.Padre Pio officiates the Saintly Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo on May 5, 1956, the day the House for the Relief of Suffering opens its doors, a building that he planned in the 1940s and fought to build, a hospital that serves 60,000 a year.