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COMMENTARY: A rare breed of blessed souls bore the stigmata.
Clockwise from top left: Padre Pio and Gemma Galgani, stigmatist saints; the book cover of Paul Kengor’s ‘The Stigmatists’; and ‘St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy,’ by Jusepe de Ribera, 1639 (photo: TAN Books and public domain photos)
The date: Sept. 20, 1918.
The place: Our Lady of Grace Chapel, the church of the Capuchin friars at San Giovanni Rotondo, located in the Italian province of Foggia.
There alone in front of a crucifix of the suffering Christ was a suffering, humble, pious friar named Francesco Forgione (1887-1968), named after St. Francis of Assisi, another suffering, humble, pious friar — who in the year 1224 first bore the wounds of Christ; that is, the stigmata.
“After celebrating the Mass,” recalled Padre Pio, as he was later known, “I stayed in the choir for the due thanksgiving prayer, when suddenly I was overtaken by a powerful trembling, then calm followed, and I saw Our Lord in the posture of someone who is on a cross … lamenting the ingratitude of men, especially those consecrated to him and by him most favored.”
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The date: Sept. 20, 1918.
The place: Our Lady of Grace Chapel, the church of the Capuchin friars at San Giovanni Rotondo, located in the Italian province of Foggia.
There alone in front of a crucifix of the suffering Christ was a suffering, humble, pious friar named Francesco Forgione (1887-1968), named after St. Francis of Assisi, another suffering, humble, pious friar — who in the year 1224 first bore the wounds of Christ; that is, the stigmata.
“After celebrating the Mass,” recalled Padre Pio, as he was later known, “I stayed in the choir for the due thanksgiving prayer, when suddenly I was overtaken by a powerful trembling, then calm followed, and I saw Our Lord in the posture of someone who is on a cross … lamenting the ingratitude of men, especially those consecrated to him and by him most favored.”
Continued below.
Bearing the Wounds of Christ: Meet the Stigmatists
COMMENTARY: A rare breed of blessed souls bore the stigmata.
