I read this book in one day! I couldn't put it down. This is a very inspiring and easy to read book.

Although I have read several books about Padre Pio, reading his own words gave me insight into his personality and spirituality, which I have not found elsewhere. A truly memorable experience for anyone who is interested in the life and contributions of this new saint!

A good reading for people from every walk of life. Wonderful guidance!

Many Christians find themselves doubting just when they least want to, i.e. during tragic times. Nothing could help you more than reading about these authenticated researched apparitions of the saints to those on earth. Since Treece is a journalist, her approach is not sentimental but hard as a rock, exactly as you want your faith to be. Delightfully written, you will enjoy and be inspired by these accounts.

Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, author of numerous books about the saints.

Apparitions Of Modern Saints is an enticing way to become acquainted with many recent Saints. Patricia Treece shares a wealth of information in an appealing manner. There are new insights to those Saints with whom we are familiar and we are introduced to others whom perhaps we never would have met.
An inspiration to sanctity.

The story of St. Maximillian Mary Kolbe is so inspirational. Like all the saints, so much can be gain be learning about them. This story is inspirational in these trying times and all times. Read this book! It will inspire you.

Patricia Treece steps back, and allows people that actually knew Fr. Maximilian Kolbe tell his story in their own words. The picture they paint is of an extraordinary man, and an extraordinary Catholic Christian. In short, a living Saint. Her skill in organizing and narrating the material adds to the experience in such a way that the reader becomes involved with, and gets to know, Fr. Kolbe. I've read this book twice, and couldn't put it down each time. I'm now ordering copies for friends and family members. Outstanding and inspiring.

I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful this book is, and how much it has done for my faith. I had no idea that miraculous cures were so abundant, even in today's society. Patricia Treece is excellent!

This book focuses on recent and for the most part local saints (North & South America). It is filled with uplifting, true stories of the Saints and explains the process that the Catholic Church uses to Canonize Saints. An outstanding book that I couldn't put down!

This is one of my favorite books on the subject of "after death" realities. Most of the cases are Roman Catholic because of the way the RC Church documents things, but Treece is very open minded and mentions a number of non-Roman Catholic and non-Christian cases of appearances. Another excellent book in this style is "An inquiry into the existence of Guardian Angels" by Pierre Jovanovic.

Patricia Treece gives us a well-written and easy-to-read insight into the life of Blessed Padre Pio. Though it is a short book, it nevertheless leaves you with an appreciation of this significant figure of the last century. I lived in Italy some fourteen years and came to hear about him (through Italian relatives who visited him), though I never met him. I now have met him through this book! The author handles the controversial aspect of his life well; and I do remember that. It is a book well worth reading and passing along to others.

Here is another book, about an extraordinary person, Padre Pio, by Patricia Treece, an extraordinary writer!

With clear, precise, telling strokes, Treece makes us see, and feel, who Padre Pio was and how he lived according to the divine light that infused his whole being.

As with other saints Treece has profiled, we are again amazed at how a person can live with great pain and physical frailties, and, because of them or in spite of them, reach incredible spiritual heights and demonstrate incredible spiritual powers.

The author's words prove equal to the task and do honor to Padre Pio, as when she writes: "God definitely toys with those He loves in games of spiritual hide-and-seek, or a kind of spiritual yo-yoing that is meant to make a soul utterly pliant in God's hands."

I found Padre Pio's own words deeply thought-provoking, as when tells Padre Eusebio: "Listen, my son, you think, like many others, that sin is the breaking of the law, but it's not that but infidelity to love."

Ultimately, it is not words, but a person's life that matters, and the author has captured Padre Pio's most instructive and inspiring life poignantly.

Rolf Gompertz,
Author of "My Jewish Brother Jesus"
and "Sparks of Spirit"

If you don't know much about Padre Pio here is a great way to get started. Patricia Treece, author of numerous popular books about miracles and saints, has an engaging journalistic style vs. a gooey sugary style that might turn you off. Divided into paragraphs with sub-titles it lets you read as if it were such classics as The Little Flowers of St. Francis.
If you do know Padre Pio well, as I do, it is still delightful to hear about him again - like hearing a favorite love-song replayed after many years to a new beat.

Nicely if plainly written, this book summarizes modern mystical phenomena relating to the physical body, as opposed to purely mental ecstasies. Much of this is a Catholic Thing, and all of it fascinating--especially inedia, the phenomenon of mystics who simply cease to eat or drink, sometimes for decades at a time. Sure, they could be frauds--but as many of them are bedridden invalids or even paralyzed, it would be possible to study them and rule out hoaxes without a great deal of effort. Maybe there are miracles. If there are, this book describes where they might be found