Guido Maria Conforti was born in Casalora di Ravadese (diocese and province of Parma, Italy), in 1865, the eighth of ten children of Rinaldo Conforti and Antonia Adorni. He attended elementary school from 1872 and each day on his way to the school he would stop by the church of Santa Maria della Pace, his parish church, where he used to have conversations with the crucified Jesus Christ. This...