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Hands with stigmata, depicted on a Franciscan church in Lienz, Austria St Catherine fainting from the stigmata by Il Sodoma, Church of Saint Pantaleon, Alsace, France. Stigmata (Ancient Greek: στίγματα, plural of στίγμα stigma, 'mark, spot, brand'), in Catholicism, are bodily wounds, scars and pain which appear in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ ...
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina venerated the shoulder wound of Jesus, and bore it himself as a stigmata. According to Stefano Campanella, author of " Il papa e il frate " (The Pope and the Friar), Karol Wojtyła (the future Pope John Paul II ), while still a priest, visited Padre Pio and asked the question of which was his most painful wound – much ...
Christ after his Resurrection, with the ostentatio vulnerum, showing his wounds, Austria, c. 1500. The five wounds comprised 1) the nail hole in his right hand, 2) the nail hole in his left hand, 3) the nail hole in his right foot, 4) the nail hole in his left foot, 5) the wound to his torso from the piercing of the spear.
Wherever the Tridentine Missal is used, however, the feast of the Stigmata remains in the General Calendar. [ 64 ] Francis is honoured with a Lesser Festival in the Church of England , [ 65 ] the Anglican Church of Canada , the Episcopal Church USA , the Old Catholic Churches , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , and other churches and ...
As the cross on her breastbone had the unusual shape of a "Y", similar to a cross in the local church of Coesfeld, English priest Herbert Thurston surmised that "the subjective impressions of the stigmatic exercise a preponderating influence upon the manifestations which appear exteriorly," [7] the same pathway to stigmata described in the ...
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. Stigmatics bear these wounds. Please use this category only where the stigmata can be attributed in secondary sources.
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.