. . "Padre Fernando of Riese Pio X wrote in THE VOICE OF PADRE PIO; Summer Number, 1991: There was an expression which Padre Pio always repeated to anyone who wished to become 'one of his': 'I welcome you willingly as my spiritual children, but on condition that you always behave properly, and never make me cut a sorry figure before God and before men, and that you are examples of Christian life, othe" . .