Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in
locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, such as the hands,
head, torso and feet.
Over the past 770 years around 300 to 350 people have
reported an extraordinary phenomenon. They have displayed, for all to see,
wounds on their bodies - and particularly their hands and feet - that they
believe represent the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ. Research shows that
within religious circles there may have been many more stigmatic’s; many
believe that their suffering is a private experience not to be made public.
The vast majority of the claimants have been female; one
estimation indicates a figure as high as 85%. Some stigmata have unusual
shapes, such as a cross or a circle, and some even glow in the dark. Many of
them also produce a pleasant perfume-like odor. In a few rare cases they aren't
even visible, but are known to be present from the pain that they cause.
Since they match the wounds suffered by Jesus, they are
normally found on the hands and ankles, on one side of the chest, and on the
head, shoulders, and back. But they aren't always real wounds, because many of
them occur in the form of purplish skin blotches or tattoo-like markings.
Actually, in some cases what looks like a blotch may be a real wound, because
small amounts of blood will sometimes seep from it, even though no breaks are
visible in the skin.
Some occurrences of stigmata persist for many years, but
others only last a few days. In several cases they have appeared on Good Friday
and vanished on Easter morning. In addition to the 'usual' marks some even
report a pain that they believe represents the injury caused to Jesus Christ by
his carrying the cross on his shoulder as he walked to his crucifixion.
Whether the stigmata is God-given are, of course, a matter
for conviction rather than research so taken that in consideration we at
Paradox will only inform you not try to explain:
SOME FAMOUS CASES (The list bellow has no particular order):
FIRST KNOW CASE
The word "stigmata" is the plural of the Greek
word "stigma". This was an ancient name for marks that were pricked
or branded onto the bodies of slaves and soldiers for identification purposes.
The word was also applied to religious symbols tattooed onto members of pagan
religious cults to show their devotion to particular gods and goddesses.
The first known use of the word with regard to the wounds of
Christ occurs in Galatians 6:17, where the Apostle Paul says "I bear on my
body the marks of Jesus.
THERESE
NEUMANN
Was a German Catholic Mystic and Stigmatic.
She was born in
the village of Konnersreauth in Bavaria, Germany, where she
lived all her life. She was born into a large family with little income. She
was a member of the The Third Order of St. Francis.
On 10 March 1918,
Therese Neumann was partially paralyzed after falling off a stool while
attending to a fire in her uncle's barn. She sustained more falls and injuries
during this period. After one particular fall she claimed to have lost much of
her eyesight. In 1919, she was blinded completely. Bedridden, she reportedly
developed horrible bed sores that sometimes exposed bone.
Therese reported
that her eyesight was restored on 29 April 1923—the day Therese of Lisieux was
beatified in Rome. Therese Neumann had been praying novenas in advance of this
day.
On 17 May 1925
Therese of Lisieux was fully canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Therese Neumann said the saint called to her and then cured her of her
paralysis and bed sores.
On 7 November
1925 Neumann took to her bed again, and on 13 November was diagnosed with
appendicitis. While prepared for surgery, she convulsed violently and stared at
the ceiling finally saying, "Yes." She asked her family to take her
to the church to pray immediately. She then announced that she had been cured of
all traces of appendicitis. Therese would later apparently develop the
stigmata. She said that on 5 March 1926, the first Friday of Lent, a wound had
appeared slightly above her heart, but that she had kept this secret. However,
she did report a vision of Jesus at Mount Olivet with three Apostles. On 12
March, she said she had another vision of Christ at Mt. Olivet, along with the
crowning of thorns. She also claimed that the wound above her heart reappeared
on this day, and she spoke to her sister about it. She claimed the wound also
reappeared on Friday of the following week. By 26 March, she was claiming the
same wound accompanied by a vision of Christ bearing the cross and a similar
wound on her left hand. Blood was observed on her clothing, and she no longer
attempted to keep the information to herself.
On Good Friday,
Neumann according to her own testimony witnessed the entire Passion of Christ
in her visions. She displayed wounds on her hands and feet accompanied by blood
apparently coming from her eyes. Blood poured from the wounds, however -
according to Neumann-critic Josef Hanauer's book The Swindle of Konnersreuth -
onlookers did not actually see the bleeding in action, only the blood itself.[
However, according
to author Albert Paul Schimberg, many persons observed her wounds bleeding and
these witnesses were by no means limited to her immediate family and Fr. Josef
Naber.Template:Gish, Lillian. The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me, p.302, Gish
recounts her visit with Neumann By 3 p.m. that day, her parish priest Fr. Josef
Naber was summoned to give Neumann the Last Rites. By 4 o'clock, her condition
improved. The wounds on her feet and hands were observed when she was bathed.
On Easter Sunday,
she claimed a vision of the resurrection of Christ. For several consecutive
Fridays after that, she stated she was experiencing the Passion of Christ,
apparently suffering in her own body along with all his historic agonies. She
especially suffered the Passion on Good Friday each year.
By 5 November
1926, she displayed nine wounds on her head as well as wounds on her back and
shoulders. According to several sources these wounds never healed or became
infected and were found on her body at death.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Born Giovanni
Francesco di Bernardone; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226 was an Italian Catholic
friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of
St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St. Francis is one of the most venerated
religious figures in history.
Francis was the
son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, and he lived the high-spirited life
typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi. While
going off to war in 1204, Francis had a vision that directed him back to
Assisi, where he lost his taste for his worldly life. On a pilgrimage to Rome,
he begged with the beggars at St. Peter's. The experience moved him to live in
poverty. Francis returned home, began preaching on the streets, and soon amassed
a following. His order was endorsed by Pope Innocent III in 1210. He then
founded the Order of Poor Clares, which was an enclosed order for women, as
well as the Third Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance. In 1219, he went to
Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan. By this point, the Franciscan Order
had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure was no
longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the order. Once his
organization was endorsed by the Pope, he withdrew increasingly from external
affairs. In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas manger scene. In
1224, he received the stigmata, making him the first recorded person to bear
the wounds of Christ's Passion. He died in 1226 while preaching Psalm 141.
On July 16, 1228,
he was pronounced a saint by Pope Gregory IX. He is known as the patron saint
of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy (with Catherine
of Siena), and it is customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold
ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October
GEORGIO
BONGIAVANI
Giorgio Bongiovanni was born in Cicilia in Floridia (SR) on September 5, 1963. His life changes for the first time in 1976, when he was only 13 years and finds Eugenio Siragusa, a remarkable Cateniense contacted (who was born in Catania - Italy) who becomes his spiritual father. Giorgio Eugenio awakens in the universal consciousness, it follows the teachings to educate and "cosmic" You learn that the Earth is a living creature, whose spirit can be identified with that Spirit commonly indicated with the name of Mary, Mother Earth or Miriam, the second cultures.
With his brother Philip and some friends founded the Journal Nosiamosoli that combines the various aspects of message Eugenio Siragusa One day, on March 5, 1989, around noon, Giorgio leaves his job to go and have lunch next to your currency Lady a car that looks like it is waiting. It struck (dazzled) by the light that comes from this being, because the sun is high in the spring sky. As he approached, he realized that Lady dressed in white is suspended over the earth. The salutes, and says that her name is Mary and invites him to prepare for subsequent meetings.
The following new appearances, increasingly intense, until the Virgin invited Giorgio to travel to Fatima that there would give him a sign On September 2, 1989, Giorgio accompanied by two Spanish friends, is in knees under the big oak dominates the square of the sanctuary. Led red roses as a gift and waits in prayer. As promised, the Heavenly Mother calls and Giorgio falls in stasis, see now the sublime Being who asks him if he is willing to bear the suffering of his son. Giorgio accepted the offer of the Virgin and see out of his chest, adorned with a white rose, two rays of light that strikes you on the palms. Giorgio falls back. His friends come running and see form on the back of his hands a swelling which is slowly tearing, as if a nail pushed upwards, opening up a deep wound that pierces through the palms. The pain is excruciating and spiritual trauma is profound. His "revelations" about Jesus, ufos, aliens and etc.. make him Giorgio one of the most controversial Stigmatics...Still Alive.
PADRE PIO
On the morning of the 20th September 1918, after having
celebrated Holy Mass, the priest Padre Pio retired to the choir stalls for his
usual thanksgiving. The place was S. Giovanni Rotondo and the church, Our Lady
of Grace. Only a few old folk long accustomed to this midday furnace weather moved
slowly about, entering the small church to say their devotions.
For the young priest, however, just then kneeling in the
chapel of the church, this morning was to be very different, a fateful morning
like no other, containing within it a destiny, a summons whose imperious and
exalted demands he would attempt to fulfill to the end. In this absolute
silence he prayed, mind and heart totally wrapped in the burning love which
consumed him like some incurable fever.
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What happened next can best be told in the simple, unadorned
words of P. Pio writing to P. Benedetto little more than a month afterwards:
"It all happened in a flash. While all this was taking place, I saw before
me a mysterious Person, similar to the one I had seen on August 5th, differing
only because His hands, feet and side were dripping blood. The sight of Him
frightened me: what I felt at that moment is indescribable. 'I thought I would
die, and would have died if the Lord hadn't intervened and strengthened my
heart which was about to burst out of my chest. The Person disappeared and I
became aware that my hands, feet and side were pierced and were dripping with
blood" P. Pio had just received the visible stigmata.
For the next fifty years they would confound impartial
science; their continuous and profuse effusion of blood, accompanied often by
the sweetest fragrance, The rest is history. News of the event spread like
wildfire and by the following year there began that afflux of pilgrims to the
tiny friary which has not ceased since. At first in a tiny stream they came,
later in the tens of thousands, flocking to glimpse this priest with the wounds
of Christ, to assist at his Mass, to kiss those mistuned hands and for those
who could speak Italian the privilege of confessing to him.
Saint Pio (Pius) of Pietrelcina, was a Capuchin Catholic priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the Capuchins, thus he was popularly known as Padre Pio. He became famous for his bearing the stigmata. On 16 June 2002, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II.P. Pio died on 23 September 1968
JULIA KIM
Her original name is Hong-Sun Yoon. Julia
is her baptismal name and Kim is her husband’s last name. She was born in Naju
in 1947. Her father was a school teacher and a scholar in Chinese literature. In
1950, when the Korean War broke out, her grandfather and father were killed by
the Communist soldiers. Her younger sister also died of an illness. Julia, with
her mother, began experiencing extreme poverty and had to work hard for
survival. She could not finish junior high school because of the
poverty.
In 1972, Julia married Julio Kim. Julio works for
the City of Naju, in its agricultural department. They have four children — two
sons and two daughters. Later, Julia’s health deteriorated because of cancer and
other accompanying illnesses. After several surgeries, her doctors said there
was no hope.
While Julia was waiting for death, her husband
took her to a Catholic priest. After hearing Julia’s story, the priest consoled
her by saying that her sufferings were blessings from God. Julia felt her body
becoming warm and sweating and was soon healed completely. She began a fervent
prayer life. She opened a beauty salon and became quite successful. (A few years
later, she closed the salon.)
One night, at 3 a.m., Julia saw a vision of Our
Lord bleeding miserably, especially from His Heart, which was torn by human
sins. Julia was deeply moved and promised a life of reparation for the sins in
the world. Miraculously, she began suffering severe pains again. Julia also
received the Stigmata, the wounds of Our Lord. These Stigmata usually last for
several days and disappear.
They reappear later. On June 30, 1985, Julia saw Our
Lady’s statue in her room weeping for the first time. Two and a half weeks
later, on July 18, she received the first message from Our Lady. On October 19,
1986, clear tears turned into bloody tears. Julia has continued receiving
messages and suffering pains. Other miracles have also continued — fragrant oil
from Our Lady’s statue, the fragrance of roses, healings of incurable illnesses,
and Eucharistic miracles.
SUMMARY OF THE SUPERNATURAL SIGNS IN NAJU
Tears
and tears of blood from our lady’s statue
Fragrant
oil from our lady’s statue
The
external appearance of bread in the holy eucharist changed into visible flesh
and blood on julia’s tongue
The
sacred host descended from above to the chapel in Naju
Spiritual and physical healings
Julia's stigmata
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