Word: stigmata
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...zealous curate, Father Chisholm got into trouble with one superior after another. Dean Fitzgerald, "refined and fastidious," had a young lady parishioner who had seen a saint in a vision, discovered a sacred spring, showed stigmata on her hands and feet, existed without eating. When Father Chisholm happened in unexpectedly late one night, found the young woman "stuffing herself" on roast chicken, her mother cried rather sensibly: "I've got to keep her strength up somehow." But Father Chisholm, appalled by "the folly ... of all human life," felt obliged to unmask...
...Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from $18 to $45 a pound, is still almost impossible to get. Because it takes 14,000 tiny flower stigmata to make an ounce, U.S. growers will not even try to produce...
Before a saint may be canonized, his intercession must officially be proved to have worked at least two miracles. Saint Gemma Galgani. "the Passion Flower of Lucca," every Friday for two years underwent the Stigmata-the five wounds in hands, feet and side which Christ suffered on the Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint...
...while on a lonely mountain, the Stigmata of the Crucifixion glowed darkly on St. Francis' hands and feet. Although no medical realist has ever before been able to confute satisfactorily the Miracle of the Stigmata, Historian Hartung brashly declares...
...admitted may well have been prejudiced in her favor. It became known last fortnight that the Bavarian Bishops' Conference had asked Therese Neumann's father to permit an examination for a month or six weeks. The bishops were interested in the fast alone, not in the stigmata and other mystical phenomena which they felt could never be satisfactorily explained by medical examination. Herr Neumann declined, objecting that his daughter would be exposed to "foreign influences and . . . uncongenial surroundings." The news of the negotiations between the bishops and Herr Neumann was made public by accident. Embarrassed, the Bishop...