stigmata

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Additionally, the bronze angel holds five roses - each representing one of the five wounds of Christ that St. Pio bore on his body, known as the stigmata.

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  • From this time his soul bears the stigmata, and as his biographers have said in words untranslatable, - 57 - Ab illa hora vulneratum et liquefactum est cor ejus ed memoriam Dominicæ passionis. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • The Brothers forgot their sadness on seeing the stigmata, and the inhabitants of Assisi manifested an indescribable joy on having their relic at last. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • Two other bulls of the same day, one addressed to the Bishop of Olmütz, the other to the Dominicans, energetically condemns them for calling the stigmata in question (Potthast, 10308 and 10309). —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • There, a young assistant priest, Fr. James Bruse, developed stigmata--the bleeding wounds of Christ--on his wrists, feet, and chest. —  Omni: October 1994
  • Additionally, the bronze angel holds five roses - each representing one of the five wounds of Christ that St. Pio bore on his body, known as the stigmata. —  Clerical Whispers
 

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