{"id":82386,"date":"2026-04-23T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82386"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:20:45","slug":"queens-restaurateur-eerects-massive-400k-shrine-for-saint-he-says-saved-him-from-fatal-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/queens-restaurateur-eerects-massive-400k-shrine-for-saint-he-says-saved-him-from-fatal-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Restaurateur Erects Massive $400K Shrine For Saint He Says Saved Him From Fatal Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/2026-restaurant-owner-joe-oppedisano-126107420.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The gate to the community shrine of Joseph Oppedisano in Little Neck, New York, with a sign announcing the unveiling of the Padre Pio shrine.\" width=\"423\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Queens restaurateur who survived a fatal plane crash is erecting a massive shrine to the saint he said saved him from a watery death.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe \u201cJoe\u201d Oppedisano had been dreaming of erecting the Padre Pio Shrine since the Italian saint appeared to him while in a morphine-induced delirium in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/05\/queens-restaurant-owner-recounts-fatal-east-river-plane-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wake of the 2020 tragedy that left his entire body broken\u00a0<\/a>and one of his best friends dead. Oppedisano was piloting his single-engine Cessna\u00a0 on Oct. 4, 2020 with longtime friends Jose Urena and his girlfriend, Maggie O\u2019Neill, on board after a lunch in Nantucket and was preparing to land in the East River when a boat suddenly blocked his path. The plane skipped across the water and smashed into a concrete pier before splitting into pieces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776935981\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Queens Restaurateur Erects Massive $400K Shrine For Saint He Says Saved Him From Fatal Plane Crash\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post: A Queens restaurateur who survived a fatal plane crash is erecting a massive shrine to the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82388,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82386\/revisions\/82388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}