Word: stigmata
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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...
...28th year a mysterious wound, two inches deep, opened up in Maria's lower right side, and slashes appeared on her thin wrists and feet. When these wounds began to bleed on Good Friday and on two subsequent Fridays, few doubted that they were actually the stigmata...
...Stigmata, wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ, have long been studied, never satisfactorily explained. The first and most celebrated case of stigmatization was St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226). Since then at least 341 cases have been recorded, 300 of them women. Most famous 20th Century case was Theresa Neumann, a German, of Konnersreuth, whose bleeding wounds were witnessed by thousands during the 1920s-303s and became the object of scientific study and investigation...
Died. Major Arthur Corbett-Smith, 65, author and publicist; by his own hand (gun shot); in Margate, England. In a note to the police he explained: "I've had a very wonderful life, but I'm too old now. . . . I view with loathing the incidence and stigmata of old age. Age, with rare exceptions, is repulsive to look upon, and its so-called wisdoms are very problematical. Every man and woman at the age of 60 should show cause why he or she should continue to exist...
...defense could argue that these were the unfortunate commonplaces of old-fashioned Latin American dictatorships. Most of the characteristic stigmata of Fascism were missing. There was no official party. Anti-Semitism was less intensive than might be expected in a nation whose middle class had felt the competition of many refugee Jews...