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MANILA—If there's something one can learn from Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, it is this — pray, hope and don't worry.

"When you feel you are in difficulty, when you have that resentment, when you have problems, you just have to pray, hope and don't worry. I think that is Padre Pio's message for today," Father GianMaria DiGiorgio told DZMM.

The relics of the celebrated saint, popularly known as Padre Pio, are in the Philippines and will be toured in many parts of the country from August to September.

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"I pray always for you, on behalf for Padre Pio. I pray for all those who are sick, for couples having problem with their marriage, for the young people, children, for all the sick, you know what suffering is like. You know how to attend those who are suffering," DiGiorgio told the Filipino devotees.

DiGiorgio once served as sacristan for Padre Pio.

He attended the mass held Friday at ABS-CBN's chapel in Quezon City for the public veneration of Padre Pio's relics.

The relics, which include the saint's glove, crusts of the wounds, cotton-gauze with blood stains, and hair, came from San Giovanni Rotondo, in southern Italy.

Padre Pio, born Francesco Forgione on May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, Italy, is one of the most venerated saints of the Catholic Church.

On September 20, 1918, while hearing confessions, the stigmata, believed to be the wounds of Jesus Christ, started appearing in his hands and feet.

By 1919, word began to spread about Padre Pio's stigmata and people came from far away to examine him.

He died in 1968 and was canonized as a saint by John Paul II.