Word: stigmata
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...Friday manifestations that have taken place for 25 years upon the body of a peasant woman named Therese Neumann. Each Good Friday (and on about 25 other Fridays through the year), chunky, good-natured Therese has bled from her eyes and the wound in her side, or from the stigmata in her hands and feet, or from all these at once. Eight marks have appeared on her head, as if caused by a crown of thorns...
...days a week, Mrs. Mclsaac is much like any other small-town matron. But for three hours every Friday evening, for the past ten years, she has suffered ecstatic agonies. She bears the stigmata-wounds corresponding to those of the crucified Christ...
...Most Peculiar." In the current Mac-Lean's magazine, Frank Hamilton describes Mrs. Mclsaac as one of the most remarkable stigmatics in history. Says Hamilton: "Of the wounds' existence there can be no doubt." The first of Mrs. Mclsaac's stigmata appeared in 1937-a small, painful sore on the back of her right hand. Over the next three years, other wounds developed. At the direction of James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto, the church arranged for long, detailed examinations of Mrs. Mclsaac at two hospitals by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish doctors...
...stigmata have not changed Mrs. Mclsaac's life very much. She is sociable with her neighbors, but on Cardinal Mc-Guigan's advice she avoids curiosity-seekers. Her eldest daughter recently graduated as a nurse. Her eldest son helps on the farm, and the other children are still in school. Financially, the family is as well fixed as before-but no better...
...Catholics in Uptergrove believe that Mrs. Mclsaac's stigmata are God-given. Not all the Protestants are doubters. Visitors are surprised at how calmly her neighbors take her. But as one villager said: "It isn't as if it was something new. Been going on now for more than ten years. I guess we've just come to accept it as a fact and let it go at that...