| Stigmata |
Stigmata is spontaneous manifestation of bloody wounds on a person's hands, feet, forehead and back - similar to the wounds of the crucified Jesus.
Those who describe stigmata categorize these experiences as divine or mystical.
Healing is usually reported within a few hours after the wounds appear.
Some people who suffer from stigmata report feels of sadness, depression, weakness, their body in physical pain, prior to the bleeding.
The blood will pour forth from openings on the body for an unknown amount of time -then just as suddenly disappear and heal.
The openings can be just in one area of the body - such as the hands or feet - or in several areas of the body at the same time.
The person is almost always in pain and discomfort when this occurs.
Though some people feel stigmata is psychosomatically induced. This is rarely the case.
Stigmata can affect women as well as men.
The blood may be of a different type than the person who is having the experience.
The first recorded Stigmata was in the year 1222. His name was Stephen Langton of Canterbury, England.
Saint Francis of Assis
In 1224 Saint Francis of Assis had a vision. He formed a friare in the town of Maria degli Angeli near Assasi. While praying outside of a cave on his 40th day of retreat he received stigmata. Nails appeared in his wounds.
In 1275 a nun named Elizabeth said she was witnessing Christ's crucification. She developed stigmata on her forehead said to be caused by Christ's crown of thorns.
In June of 1996 I met Georgio Bongiavani a man who experiences stigmata on his hands and forehead every day of his life. I was at the Star Knowledge conference, in South Dakota.
As I am a sensitive and healer I was guided to place my hands gently into his. I experienced an incredible flow of healing energy.
Georgio's wounds are legitimate.
He lectured about the return of extraterrestrials to the planet - biblical prophecies linked to Revelation.
Since the early 1980's Maria Al Acaris from Syria sponataneously begins to bleed from all over her body. It happens on Good Friday and lasts for hours. She develops scratches on her forehead. Then as if by another miracle the wounds spontaneous heal in a few hours.
This is Padre Pio. His wounds bled daily for 50 years.
On October 22, 1918, Padre Pio wrote to his spiritual advisor, Padre Benedetto, describing how he received the stigmata. "On the morning of the 20th of last month, in the choir, after I had celebrated Mass, I yielded to a drowsiness similar to a sweet sleep.
All the internal and external senses and even the very faculties of my soul were immersed in indescribable stillness. Absolute silence surrounded and invaded me. I was suddenly filled with great peace and abandonment which effaced everything else and caused a lull in the turmoil. All this happened in a flash.
"While this was taking place, I saw before me a mysterious person similar to the one I had seen on the evening of 5 August. The only difference was that his hands and feet and side were dripping blood. The sight terrified me and what I felt at that moment is indescribable. I thought I should die and really should have died if the Lord had not intervened and strengthened my heart which was about to burst out of my chest.
"The vision disappeared and I became aware that my hands, feet and side were dripping blood. Imagine the agony I experienced and continue to experience almost every day. The heart wound bleeds continually, especially from Thursday evening until Saturday.
"Dear Father, I am dying of pain because of the wounds and the resulting embarrassment I feel in my soul. I am afraid I shall bleed to death if the Lord does not hear my heartfelt supplication to relieve me of this condition. Will Jesus, who is so good, grant me this grace? Will he at least free me from the embarrassment caused by these outward signs? I will raise my voice and will not stop imploring him until in his mercy he takes away, not the wound or the pain, which is impossible since I wish to be inebriated with pain, but these outward signs which cause me such embarrassment and unbearable humiliation" (Letters 1, No. 511).
On June 26, 1999 - I watched the FOX TV special - "Signs From Gods -Science Tests Faith".
The program was about 'miracles' - or connections to Source - and proving them scientifically.
Katya Revas is a Bolivian woman who was vidoed over a period of months as many miraculous things occurred in her everyday life - connected to Jesus - who she claims comes to talk to her on a regular basis.
The show was geared towards waking up yet another group of our 'sleeping masses' - to the connection humanity has with a higher source - Jesus - (savior) - in this case - and that everything we experience can not be explained with third dimensional terminology.
Within her home - one can witness statues and portarits crying blood or tears of oil. The blood tested as feminine.
Katya wants no money - is not on an 'ego trip' - but was just a woman who incarnated in this timeline to bring special messages to humanity.
She is a woman of humble means with a spiritual heart and soul.
It took her many years of spiritual work to get to the level of credibility she has attained.
Scientific equipment was brought in to either verify or discredit her claims of 'talk' with Jesus.
Katya allowed herself to be tested with all sorts of scientific equipment - all of which proved that she was having an unexplained experience.
I was most impressed with one segment where an EEG was strapped to her head to monitor her brain-wave patterns while she was talking to Jesus.
The equipment showed her brain to be in a Delta state - sleep state - coma state - but she was awake and speaking to Jesus and those in the room with her.
Katya suddenly started a conversation with a man in another room - whom she was unaware was monitoring her - or that the other room even existed as it was sound-proofed.
His name is Dr. Victor Pella. He was watching her through a two-way mirror and speculating that perhaps her brain was going through a seizure of some kind - like epilepsy.
Suddenly Katya started talking to him saying that she was not sick and did not have epilepsy.
Everyone looked on in shock! Katya said she got the messages from Jesus who was by her side.
Katya continued her conversation with the man - though she could not see or hear him! It was amazing!
In another part of the show - Katya said she was looking at Jesus. The cameras picked up a bright light reflecting off her eyes.
None of this was a 'set-up' by Katya. It was a 'set-up' by the universe for those who are non-believers to think about other realities and say, "Maybe this could be true".
Katya also experiences the stigmata as certain times. She knows when it is going to happen to her. Viewers got to see the wounds appear on her body - remain for a day - the miraculously heal! She appeared to be in great pain prior to the and during the experience. It was amazing to see her wounds heal with no scars.
I know that it is all in preparation for something about to happen in the current timelines.
Some may call it 'Revelation'. Whatever title works for you!
Katya's message to humanity was similar to those told in the all of the prophecies I have in my files:
To decide merely the facts without deciding whether or not they may be explained by supernatural causes, history tells us that many ecstatics bear on hands, feet, side, or brow the marks of the Passion of Christ with corresponding and intense sufferings. These are called visible stigmata. Others only have the sufferings, without any outward marks, and these phenomena are called invisible stigmata. Their existence is so well established historically that, as a general thing, they are no longer disputed by unbelievers, who now seek only to explain them naturally. Thus a free-thinking physician, Dr. Dumas, professor of religious psychology at the Sorbonne, clearly admits the facts (Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 May, 1907), as does also Dr. Pierre Janet (Bulletin de l'Institut psychologique international, Paris, July, 1901).
St. Catherine of Siena at first had visible stigmata but through humility she asked that they might be made invisible, and her prayer was heard. This was also the case with St. Catherine de' Ricci, a Florentine Dominican of the sixteenth century, and with several other stigmatics. The sufferings may be considered the essential part of visible stigmata; the substance of this grace consists of pity for Christ, participation in His sufferings, sorrows, and for the same end--the expiation of the sins unceasingly committed in the world. If the sufferings were absent, the wounds would be but an empty symbol, theatrical representation, conducing to pride. If the stigmata really come from God, it would be unworthy of His wisdom to participate in such futility, and to do so by a miracle. But this trial is far from being the only one which the saints have to endure: "The life of stigmatics," says Dr. Imbert, "is but a long series of sorrows which arise from the Divine malady of the stigmata and end only in death: (op. cit. infra, II, x). It seems historically certain that ecstatics alone bear the stigmata; moreover, they have visions which correspond to their rôle of co-sufferers, beholding from time to time the blood-stained scenes of the Passion. With many stigmatics these apparitions were periodical, e.g., St. Catherine de' Ricci, whose ecstasies of the Passion began when she was twenty (1542), and the Bull of her canonization states that for twelve years they recurred with minute regularity. The ecstasy lasted exactly twenty-eight hours, from Thursday noon till Friday afternoon at four o'clock, the only interruption being for the saint to receive Holy Communion. Catherine conversed aloud, as if enacting a drama. This drama was divided into about seventeen scenes. Oncoming out of the ecstasy the saint's limbs were covered with wounds produced by whips, cords etc.
Dr. Imbert has attempted to count the number of stigmatics, with the following results:
II. The facts having been set forth, it remains to state the explanations that have been offered. Some physiologists, both Catholics and Free-thinkers, have maintained that the wounds might be produced in a purely natural manner by the sole action of the imagination coupled with lively emotions. The person being keenly impressed by the sufferings of the Saviour and penetrated by a great love, this preoccupation acts on her or him physically, reproducing the wounds of Christ. This would in no wise diminish his or her merit in accepting the trial, but the immediate cause of the phenomena would not be supernatural. We shall not attempt to solve this question. Physiological science does not appear to be far enough advanced to admit a definite solution, and the writer of this article adopts the intermediate position, which seems to him unassailable, that of showing that the arguments in favour of natural explanations are illusory. They are sometimes arbitrary hypotheses, being equivalent to mere assertions, sometimes arguments based exaggerated or misinterpreted facts. But if the progress of medical sciences and psycho-physiology should present serious objections, it must be remembered that neither religion or mysticism is dependent on the solution of these questions, and that in processes of canonization stigmata do not count as incontestable miracles.
No one has ever claimed that imagination could produce wounds in a normal subject; it is true that this faculty can act slightly on the body, as Benedict XIV said, it may accelerate or retard the nerve-currents, but there is no instance of its action on the tissues (De canoniz., III, xxxiii, n. 31). But with regard to persons in an abnormal condition, such as ecstasy or hypnosis, the question is more difficult; and, despite numerous attempts, hypnotism has not produced very clear results. At most, and in exceedingly rare cases, it has induced exudations or a sweat more or less coloured, but this is a very imperfect imitation. Moreover, no explanation has been offered of three circumstances presented by the stigmata of the saints:
With regard to the flow of blood it has been objected that there have been bloody sweats, but Dr. Lefebvre, professor of medicine at Louvain, has replied that such cases as have been examined by physicians were not due to a moral cause, but to a specific malady. Moreover, it has often been proved by the microscope that the red liquid which oozes forth is not blood; its colour is due to a particular substance, and it does not proceed from a wound, but is due, like sweat, to a dilatation of the pores of the skin. But it may be objected that we unduly minimize the power of the imagination, since, joined to an emotion, it can produce sweat; and as the mere idea of having an acid bon-bon in the mouth produces abundant saliva, so, too, the nerves acted upon by the imagination might produce the emission of a liquid and this liquid might be blood. The answer is that in the instances mentioned there are glands (sudoriparous and salivary) which in the normal state emit a special liquid, and it is easy to understand that the imagination may bring about this secretion; but the nerves adjacent to the skin do not terminate in a gland emitting blood, and without such an organ they are powerless to produce the effects in question. What has been said of the stigmatic wounds applies also to the sufferings. There is not a single experimental proof that imagination could produce them, especially in violent forms.
Another explanation of these phenomena is that the patients produce the wounds either fraudulently or during attacks of somnambulism, unconsciously. But physicians have always taken measures to avoid these sources of error, proceeding with great strictness, particularly in modern times. Sometimes the patient has been watched night and day, sometimes the limbs have been enveloped in sealed bandages. Mr. Pierre Janet placed on one foot of a stigmatic a copper shoe with a window in it through which the development of the wound might be watched, while it was impossible for anyone to touch it (op. cit. supra).
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