When the Vatican canonised Padre Pio Forgione in 2002, it studiously avoided mentioning his famous physical features: the stigmata, or "wounds of Christ", that appeared on his hands and left side. St ...
The human reception of the stigmata is the only miracle that can be called a thoroughly medieval one as accounts of it are not found in the early Church. It was in 1224 with Francis of Assisi that ...
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 ...
Spanning the globe in search of living stigmatics. With the help of doctors, scientists and skeptics they examine the cases of several stigmatics including an American girl, Audrey Santos, in a coma, ...
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