{"id":3046,"date":"2019-03-14T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2019-03-14T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:55:00","slug":"the-polish-model-and-the-mysterious-encounter-with-padre-pio-only-at-medjugorje-did-she-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2019\/03\/14\/the-polish-model-and-the-mysterious-encounter-with-padre-pio-only-at-medjugorje-did-she-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Model and the Mysterious Encounter with Padre Pio\u2026 Only at Medjugorje Did She Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

By Br Daniel Klimek Ph.D<\/a><\/p>\n

Before her conversion to a devout Catholic faith, the Polish model Ania Gol\u0119dzinowska lived a life of celebrity, substance abuse, and hostility toward the Catholic Church. One night a mysterious stranger came to admonish her. Only in Medjugorje did she recognize him as St. Padre Pio, the 20th Century Capuchin friar who bore the stigmata, the wounds of Christ, on his body.a<\/p>\n

Years ago Polish model Ania Gol\u0119dzinowska woke up in the middle of the night in her Italian home to find a mysterious man standing by the side of her bed, shaking his head at her in disappointment. It was only years later when she moved to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2011, and saw a book about Saint Padre Pio, who passed away decades ago in 1968, that Gol\u0119dzinowska recognized the man\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

When she experienced the mysterious encounter, Ania was leading a far from virtuous life.Though a successful model, an actress in Italian sitcoms, and a TV presenter, she admits to struggling with substance abuse, lacking faith in God, and even developing a strong resentment toward the Catholic Church. Saint Pio, she believes, came to warn her to change her ways. The former model recalls the day when she finally identified him: \u201cFor years, I did not know who he was. Even in my book I reported this incident but did not include the man\u2019s name,\u201d Ania told Brother Marcin Radomski, a Capuchin Franciscan, in an interview she gave in \u0141om\u017ca, Poland, in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only five months ago in Medjugorje that somebody gave me a book about the life of Padre Pio, and for the first time, after eight years, I could give the name of the person who eight years ago came to admonish me, to warn me that if I would continue leading my life this way then I would not go far.\u201d Ania was very open about how far away she strayed from the Church in those years, to the point of developing a hatred for all things Catholic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was far from the Church. If I would get a chance, I would shoot all priests and nuns. Whenever I saw a church, I would cross to the other side of the street. I abused drugs. I drank.\u201d Then one night a warning came. Even her dog, Ania recalls, sensed the presence of a stranger in the room, suggesting to her that this was no hallucination.<\/p>\n

\u201cA certain day, a certain night I woke up because my dog was barking. And by the side<\/p>\n

of my bed stood this man, older, with a beard, and he was looking at me, shaking his head. I thought that it was some kind of hallucination because of the alcohol or drugs \u2013 no, this is not possible, I thought. Then I turned on the light, and this man was still standing by my bedside, shaking his head and my dog was still barking at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Ania believes Saint Pio came to her with an important message, he did not need words to convey it. \u201cHe did not say anything, but he was looking at me as if he wanted to say: \u2018Ania, what are you doing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ania Gol\u0119dzinowska made much news when the Catholic Herald published a popular interview with her. The interview centered around her life-changing conversion in Medjugorje and its consequences. She made the decision to leave the life of glamour and fame in high Italian society behind for a simple, peasant life of prayer and service in Medjugorje, where she has been living since 2011 with Pure Hearts, a Marian community of priests and nuns.<\/p>\n

For the Polish model, this required ending a prominent relationship with her boyfriend Paolo Enrico Beretta, the nephew of then-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Ania has spent much time touring Poland, as a Polish edition of her autobiography was recently released, translated by a priest.<\/p>\n

Her book, Ocalona z Piek\u0142a: Wyznania by\u0142ej Modelki translates to Rescued from Hell: Confessions of a former Model. A section in the book describes Ania\u2019s encounter with the visitor who appeared to her in the middle of the night years ago to give her a helpful warning. Now readers may know that Ania Gol\u0119dzinowska has identified the mysterious stranger as Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the famous stigmatic priest and mystic.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT BR. DANIEL MARIA KLIMEK, T.O.R.<\/h3>\n
I am a friar studying to be a priest with the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular (T.O.R.) of the Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. My doctorate is in spirituality, and I have a great love for Christian mysticism, spirituality, personal development, film and coffee but, most importantly, for Jesus and Mary. The posts on this blog represent my own opinions and not necessarily those of my Province. If you\u2019d like to reach me please send an email to dklimek [at] franciscanstor.org<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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