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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 ...
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.
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 ...
She is said to have received the wounds of the stigmata while living there and suffered patiently many physical afflictions and spiritual trials. [3] She would wear gloves to cover the marks on her hands, while she did her work. [5] She is also said to have had visions of Raphael the Archangel, who healed her of several afflictions. [6]
Mariam Baouardy, OCD (Arabic: مريم بواردي, or Mary of Jesus Crucified, 5 January 1846 – 26 August 1878), was a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Born to Palestinian parents from the town of Hurfiesh in the upper Galilee , [ 1 ] later moved to I’billin , she was known for her service to the poor.
It is claimed that de' Ricci's meditation on the Passion of Christ was so deep that she spontaneously bled, as if scourged and bore the stigmata. During times of deep prayer, like Catherine of Siena , her patron saint , a ring-shaped stigm, representing her marriage to Christ, appeared on her finger.
Louise Lateau. Louise Lateau (born 29 January 1850 at Bois-d'Haine, in Belgium, died on 25 August 1883 at Bois-d'Haine) was a mystic and stigmatist. [1]The case of Louise Lateau is one of the best documented of those who received the stigmata.
12.7 cm × 14.6 cm (5.0 in × 5.7 in), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is the name given to two unsigned paintings completed around 1428–1432 that art historians usually attribute to the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck. The panels are nearly identical, apart from a considerable difference in size.