Career
Giorgio Festa is known for being Saint Pio of Pietrelcina’s personal doctor. In 1920 Festa went to San Giovanni Rotondo for a medical check on some Saint Pio of Pietrelcina"s injures he had observed the month before. On the 5th of October 1925 he operated Saint Pio of Pietrelcina on the right inguinal hernia and in 1927 he removed a cyst, which was on Saint Pio’s sternocleidomastoid muscle.
In 1938 he published his visits results in “Misteri di scienza e luci di fede.
Stigmate del padre Pio da Pietrelcina”. He was buried in the monumental cemetery of Campo Verano, in Rome.
