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Stigmata
Impressions on certain persons of marks corresponding to some
or all of the wounds received by our Saviour in His trial and
crucifixion. The following claim to have been so stigmatised:
(1) MEN. Angelo del Paz (all the marks); Benedict of Reggio (the
crown of thorns), 1602; Carlo di Saeta (the lance-wound); Dodo, a
Premonstratensian monk (all the marks); Francis of Assisi (all the
marks, which were impressed on him by a seraph with six wings),
September 15th, 1224; Nicholas of Ravenna, etc.
(2) WOMEN. Bianca de Gazecan; St. Catharine of Sienna; Catharine di
Raconisco (the crown of thorns), 1583; Cecilia di Nobili of Nocera,
1655; Clara di Pugny (mark of the spear), 1514; “Estatica” of Caldaro
(all the marks), 1842; Gabriella da Piezolo of Aquila (the
spear-mark), 1472; Hieronyma Carvaglio (the
spear-mark, which bled every Friday); Joanna Maria of the Cross;
Maria Razzi of Chio (marks of the thorny crown); Maria Villani (ditto);
Mary Magdalen di Pazzi; Mechtildis von Stanz; Ursula of Valencia;
Veronica Guliani (all the marks), 1694; Vincenza Ferreri of Valencia,
etc.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Stigmata from Infoplease:
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