WATCH A Miracle Seen By Millions - The Wounds of Jesus Appear On Believer
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Summary
The Stigmata, or The Shroud of Turin, is a symbol of the wounds of Christ in the hands and feet of a person who has been touched by the Spirit of God. They are said to be seen by the St. Francis of Assisi, Padre Pio, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Catherine of Siena. They claim to have seen the stigmata in their hands, feet and in the side of St. Paul the Apostle.
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He says, from the opening credits to the closing scenes,
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I saw every bit of that documentary in perfect colour.
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The effect that it had on his whole family who knew he was blind,
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when they heard his story, because they know he's for real,
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Well, it is the wounds of Christ appearing in someone,
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In fact, the first occurrence of this might have been right in apostolic times.
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If you read St. Paul's writing, he actually says it in the book of Galatians.
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He says, from henceforth, let no man be troublesome to me,
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for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body.
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Now, it could have been referring to other things, of course.
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You know, he was whipped for the Lord and so on and so forth.
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So, he had a lot of marks, surely, on his body.
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But he uses, as Taylor Marshall points out in one of his shows,
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So, there's that possibility that St. Paul, the apostle,
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or the apostle of the Gentiles, himself had the stigmata.
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But the first recorded case of the stigmata was with St. Francis of Assisi,
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Now, that stigmata, he said to have received the wounds of Christ in his hands
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and in his feet and in his side a couple of years before his death.
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In fact, there's a witness to this in Pope Alexander IV.
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And so, you have eyewitnesses of that caliber giving this testimony.
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In fact, St. Catherine of Siena, a saint who lived in the 1300s,
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there's a very well-known case of the stigmata in Padre Pio,
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And, of course, it was a distraction for people and for him as well.
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at the behest of religious superiors and so on.
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And surely he suffered with this manifestation,
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And very strange stuff, I'm sure, for many, many people.
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But what it is, is a representation of the wounds of Christ.
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So, it is a uniting of oneself with the suffering of Christ.
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And that's what the saints, and that's what we are all called to do.
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more common, interestingly, in women than in men.
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Therese Neumann, who's very well known as a mystic in Germany,
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The visionary that many of us have been talking about
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So, these are mysterious wounds of Christ on people,
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who was a lawyer, filmmaker, documentary maker,