Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds of Jesus in his own body. He bore the wounds until his ...

What a profound honor to live during the 800th anniversary of the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi! That a man like St. Francis would so love God as to receive Our Lord’s marks from the cross on his ...

Padre Pio (1887-1968), an Italian priest and stigmatic, was elevated to sainthood in 2002 as St. Pio of Pietrelcino. In the 1940s he heard the confession of the future Pope John Paul II and–John Paul ...

The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings by American Spectator Editor Paul Kengor will be published on September 3, 2024. You can purchase the book here. The date was September ...

A woman touches a statue of St. Padre Pio in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the Shrine of St. Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, March 16. Pope Francis was to visit the ...

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It seems as if the Roman Catholic church doesn't like to discuss stigmata, or at least doesn't like to recognize it.<BR><BR>Some say that those who receive the wounds of Christ suffer from a mental ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio ...