Word: stigmata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from $18 to $45 a pound, is still almost impossible to get. Because it takes 14,000 tiny flower stigmata to make an ounce, U.S. growers will not even try to produce...
Before a saint may be canonized, his intercession must officially be proved to have worked at least two miracles. Saint Gemma Galgani. "the Passion Flower of Lucca," every Friday for two years underwent the Stigmata-the five wounds in hands, feet and side which Christ suffered on the Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint...