"There's this sense that 'Oh, my heavens. Here is someone who did all of this while he was alive. Now he's with God. Imagine what he could for us if we could only connect with him,'" Fragomeni said, holding his own Padre Pio relic, a square of cloth stained with blood and contained in a glass box. "All of these reasons give people a hope that if he could do all that and he healed people while he was alive, 'maybe he could so something for me. Maybe he could touch my soul.'"