Pope John Paul II (born Karol Wojtyla in Poland in 1920) has apparently held Padre Pio in special esteem ever since a Polish mother of four was miraculously cured of throat cancer through his intercession in the early 1960s.

• 自从皮奥神父在20世纪60年代初通过他的代祷神奇地为一位有四个孩子的波兰母亲治好了喉癌以来，罗马教皇约翰·保罗二世（1920年生于波兰，原名科罗·沃伊泰勒）显然一直对他特别敬重。