 In April 1967, three years before founding the SSPX, Lefebvre briefly met the Italian mystic Padre Pio to ask his blessing on a forthcoming general chapter of the Holy Ghost Fathers.Pascal Cataneo, a priest claiming to be an associate of Padre Pio, claimed in the book "Padre Pio Gleanings" that the saint had prophesied about Abp.Lefebvre.