Official site of the COMMITTEE of FRIENDS lalucediGIO on the life of Giovannimaria Rainaldi
On pilgrimage
Gio earthly life was an intense pilgrimage to Heaven,
also studded with many geographic pilgrimages.
Giovannimaria's story has led us to many places of grace
where God, through his Son, the Virgin Mother, his angels and
his saints, calls each of us to the encounter with Him
and to the conversion of the hearts.
August 2005
SANCTUARY of SAN MICHEAL the ARCHANGEL,
Monte Sant'Angelo, Foggia.
He was the first that Gio visited,
when still in the womb.
Congregation of St. Michael the Archangel CSMA
March 2008
SANCTUARY OF OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE in Rome. Gio went there to pray and play twice with the maternal grandmother and his mother. (Oblate of Divine Love) .
summers between 2008-2011
CONVENT OF THE PRESENTATION on Monte Argentario GR.
In the summers spent on holiday at Cala di Forno (Fonteblanda GR), Gio often went with his mother and sisters to the weekday mass on the mountain Argentario which overlook the bay of Orbetello, to visit the Passionist Fathers.
October 2008
THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMB OF SAN FRANCESCO D'ASSISI. Gio, about two and a half years old, asked to go and see
"The barefoot saint".
On the same occasion, Gio visits the PORZIUNCOLA in the BASILICA of SANTA MARIA degli ANGELI.
(Order of OFM Friars Minor)
February - June 2009
MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE, Farnese (VT).
Here Gio was a guest a few times, with his sisters and his mother, staying in the guesthouse of the Poor Clares Sisters.
February 15, 2009
SANCTUARY OF GRECCIO .
Gio visited the sanctuary accompanied by the priest and artist fra 'Sidival Fila ofm and rector of the Convent of San Bonaventura in Rome.
15-18 April 2009, Easter
FIRST PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORJE. Gio participates
to the ascent to Mount Krizevac and to the prayer of the Via Crucis.
January 2010
When Gio was 2 years old, after the diagnosis of the disease and after the first surgical operation, he went, with part of his family, on a pilgrimage to the TOMB of San Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo , in the crypt of the
CHURCH of SANTA MARIA delle GRAZIE.
Since then Padre Pio has always been one of his favorite saints. (Order of Capuchin Friars Minor).
On the same occasion Gio went up
also at the SANCTUARY OF SAN MICHEAL, in Monte Sant'Angelo and visited the birthplace of San Pio in PIETRALCINA.
March 2010
Pilgrimage to the SANCTUARY of MERCIFUL LOVE in Collevalenza (PG)
to meet Mother Hope and bathe in the source.
Congregation of the Daughters and Handmaids of Merciful Love
May 16, 2010
BASILICA of SANTA CRISTINA , Bolsena. Accompanying a little sister to the Aikido exam
on the lake, Gio at the age of 4 wanted to visit the beautiful church where the Eucharistic miracle took place (1263) which was the reason for the institution of the Feast of Corpus Domini.
30 September-04 October 2010
SECOND PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORJE. Gio, guest with
the parents at Mirjana's home, participates in the extraordinary apparition on 2 October,
next to the seer,
at the Blue Cross, at the foot of Podbrodo, Collina of the apparitions.
07 August 2011
CISTERCENSE MONASTERY of SAN GIACOMO di VEGLIA, Vittorio Veneto. Thu visits and remains a guest for
one night of nuns of the Cistercian order, who had been praying for him for a long time, at the request of a dear friend benefactress.
The Mother Abbess gives him the prayer of the Rosary of the Madonna that unties the knots.
28-29 August 2011
PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES.
Gio, at the invitation of Don Giovanni Biallo, joins the annual pilgrimage of the Diocese of Rome organized by the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi OPR.
04 July 2012 Independence day
ROSARY HILL HOME, SHRINE OF MOTHER MARY ALPHONSA
and a place of reception and residence for the terminally ill without insurance. Monastery and hospice run by the Dominican sisters. Gio is invited by Br. John Maria Devaney OP and Br. Mario OP to the celebration
for American Independence Day.
25 August 2012
Pilgrimage to the SANCTUARY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA, in USA
"NATIONAL BLUE ARMY SHRINE" ,
New Jersey,
organized by the Saint Pio of Pietralcina prayer group in New York, celebrating the Bishop of Brooklyn Mons. Nicholas A. DiMarzio.