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Nov 18, 2011 · Through the centuries, stigmata has become one of the best-documented, and most controversial, of mystical phenomena. The extensive record makes it possible to compare cases that occurred...
5 days ago · Stigmata is one of the strangest phenomena in the Catholic Church in the last few centuries. If you don’t already know, the stigmata is a supernatural phenomenon in which the wounds of Christ from His passion and death miraculously appear on a person’s body.
Sep 23, 2022 · Saints or blesseds with the stigmata have been canonized or beatified because of their holy deeds and other works attributed to them, not because of their stigmata alone.
Feb 19, 2019 · As allegedly supernatural manifestations of devotional enthusiasm, stigmata complicated notions of an emerging science and a rationalizing religion, and could even upset the fragile religious status quo.
- Kristof Smeyers
- 2019
6 days ago · Canadian Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has created a series of sculptures of anonymous figures — a homeless person on a bench, a beggar on the ground, a prisoner behind bars. Only by the scarred hands — the stigmata — does the viewer know that it is Jesus in the least of his brethren.
The phenomenon of stigmata, or the spontaneous appearance of wounds resembling those inflicted on Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, has fascinated and mystified both the faithful and skeptics for centuries.
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Italy's most popular saint may be 20th-century Capuchin Franciscan, Padre Pio (1887-1968). A controversial and charismatic figure, this peasant-born ascetic had manifestations of the stigmata for decades, and was widely sought as a confessor and intercessor.
