Word: stigmata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced by a sharp weapon." Padre Pio had the stigmata-the marks of Christ...
...peasant woman Theresa Neumann, now 51, to recognize the phenomenon as real, though they do not agree on an entirely satisfactory medical explanation. Padre Pio's wounds bleed constantly, the wound in his side saturating three to four handkerchiefs each day. The church, which does not hold that stigmata are necessarily caused by supernatural means, at first treated Padre Pio with cautious skepticism...
While looking into the phenomenon, the Vatican forbade him to hear confessions or officiate at any public occasion. Only after two years of painstaking investigation by doctors and others, did the church finally lift the ban on the grounds of: 1) "the undoubted presence" of the stigmata; 2) Padre Pio's holy way of life from childhood; 3) proof that "miracles have happened in the presence of Padre...
...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...
Landscapes in G. Initial letters swelled to full-page size and came to enclose miniature paintings sometimes as detailed as murals. Within one huge blue and rose G, an artist had drawn St. Francis kneeling to receive the stigmata (see cut). Gradually the illustrations were separated from the text, and sometimes they almost supplanted it-so that bumpkin barons and illiterate lords could "read" their books like comic strips. They had no trouble identifying each character; the beasts were beastly, the saints saintly, and the maidens maidenly...