Are there any real cases of stigmata?
Though Francis is the first person in history to have had the stigmata, subsequent Christian history records any number of persons who claimed them. Take the most famous stigmatic of this century. Capuchin Franciscan friar Padre Pio, who died in 1968, bore bodily wounds for nearly fifty years.
Though Francis is the first person in history to have had the stigmata, subsequent Christian history records any number of persons who claimed them. Take the most famous stigmatic of this century. Capuchin Franciscan friar Padre Pio, who died in 1968, bore bodily wounds for nearly fifty years.
