Stigmata

What are stigmata and can it occur to anyone? Can it happen to you or someone you know? When does it happen? Is this phenomenon true or just another hoax? What happens to someone who is considered a stigmatic? What exactly is a stigmatic? Stigmata is the spontaneous duplicated wounds that Christ received during crucifixion (Nickell, 219). The wounds that one receives are the wounds that resemble the wounds Jesus Christ suffered in crucifixion. The wounds …showed first 75 words of 1889 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1889 total…icons, relics, stigmata, visions, and healing cures. New York: Prometheus Books. (1993-1998). Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99, [CD-ROM]. Available: 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. Stigmata. Retrieved October 25,2000 from the world wide web: http://www.crystalinds.com/stigmata.html Is Stigmata for Real? Retrieved October 23,2000 from the world wide web: http://www.thewaters.org/columns/stigmata.html Wainwright, Rupert (Director). (1999). Stigmata [film]. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Pictures. Freze, Michael S.F.O, (1993). Voices, Vision, and Apparitions. Hunnington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division.