Even with concerns about coronavirus keeping attendance lower than in previous years, a few dozen parishioners still came to Attleboro’s LaSalette Shrine on Saturday during the third annual Italian Cultural Festival, which also paid homage to Saint Padre Pio.

The well-known Italian friar and priest who showed signs of stigmata lived from 1887 to 1968 and was canonized in 2002. Pio was also known, in life and through intercession, to heal the sick in ways that have had no known medical explanation.