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stigmata

Impressions or marks corresponding to the five wounds Jesus received at his crucifixion, which are said to have appeared spontaneously on St Francis and other saints.
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The devotion was revealed through visions and locutions to a Polish nun and stigmatist, Maria Faustina Kowalska, who died in 1938 at the age of 33.
Tender mercies: suffering meets consolation in the Chaplet of the ... by Schmalz, Mathew / U.S. Catholic
Now Gibson has indicated that apart from the Gospels, he also referred to the accounts of the early modern female mystic Maria de Agreda (1602-1665) and his personal copy of The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1824) by Venerable Anne Katherine Emmerich (1774-1824), hailed as a Mystic, Stigmatist, Visionary, and Prophet (Emmerich 2004: www.
Gibson's Passion: flogging a dead horse? by Allen, Nicholas P.L. / Journal of Literary Studies
The biographers of the female stigmatists and quasi-stigmatists, however, focus on penance, explicit suffering, the heart as love, and the Eucharist-in accordance with contemporary spirituality.
Francis's Stigmata and Women Saints. (Medieval Studies) by Renna, Thomas J. / Michigan Academician
 
 
 
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