Sobre as estigmatas.
The stigmata of Lilian Bernas - Investigative Files
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_2_28/ai_114090201Following St. Francis, a few hundred people have exhibited stigmata, including several saints--most recent Padre Pio (1887-1968). He was canonized in 2002, although nor for his stigmata,
the Catholic Church never having declared the alleged phenomenon miraculous (D'Emilio 2002; Tokasz 2003).
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The twentieth century's two best-known stigmatics--Theresa Neumann and
Padre Pio--were suspected of deception. A Professor Martini who conducted a surveillance of Neumann observed that blood would flow from her wounds only when he was persuaded to leave the room, as if something
"needed to be hidden from observation" (Wilson 1988, 53, 114-115). And a pathologist who examined Padre Pio concluded that his wounds were superficial at best and that the side "wound" had not penetrated the skin at all (Ruffin 1982, 146-154,305).
Estigmata é farsa da grossa.