Word: stigmata
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...long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...
Miss Fosdick, these 20 years companion to Mrs. Weatherby, knew the reasons. And she knew why Miss Annie Spragg got those "stigmata," and who her passionate lover. But Miss Fosdick was more interested in her own lack of lover, and blushed under the glance of another of Mrs. Weatherby's callers-in-re-Spragg...
...occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only the most patient can cure...
Encyclical. The great New York Times published the full text of the encyclical letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, announcing to his "venerable brothers" the celebration of the hepta-centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their...
...yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...