Word: stigmata
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...spectacular tortures, holy stigmata or supernatural visions marked the life of Mother Seton; but she was gentle and pious, and as brilliant an organizer as St. Teresa who founded the Discalced Carmelite Order. One of her biographers (Father Joseph B. Code of St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa) says that she "inaugurated practically every work of Catholic social welfare in the U. S." Soon after her death U. S. Catholics perceived in her an eminent candidate for the Church's great posthumous tribute: sainthood. Though eight residents of North America have been canonized (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), there...
...moles and not the mice develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
...Lamb was a thorough man. Knowing that life leaves its stigmata on the body, he carefully detailed his health history in his will. He reported that, as a child, he had varioloid measles, sore throat and "colds." When he was twelve he had struck his head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...
...method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled "Sectarianism" and herself labeled "Mrs. Willebrandt...
...Stigmata are marks on the human body corresponding to Christ's wounds at the Crucifixion. Francis of Assisi was the first saint upon whom these miraculous marks appeared...