Chapter 30, The Greatest Cross, Chapter 31, Just in Time for My Golden Jubilee, Chapter 32, I Cannot Bear My Cross Anymore, Chapter 33, 'Give Me the Obedience to Die!', Chapter 34, Padre Pio Lives!, Chapter 35, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Epilogue, An Imitator of Christ Summary and Analysis

Chapter 30 opens in the 1950s, when Italy is in a period of prosperity. Pio lives in a larger house of worship and the town of San Giovanni Rotundo has grown. The hospital expands in 1958. Pio ages, slowing a bit as he reaches seventy. Pio also starts to become sick again, with ailments like kidney stones and bronchial pneumonia. He is even diagnosed with...