The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-03
II Miraculous stIgmata NO
Miracles in Mature.
ANALYSIS OF THE SEVERAL CASES
Or Persona on Whose Bodies Have
Appeared Wounds Like Those In.
fllctcd on Jcsus.-.Nlncty Such Cases
on acknowledgements aud the Love
of tho Observation-Disclosures of the
phenomena.


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thc woman 10 in q ,-.rco ,,.,.I,s 80 49,
mn hc. hands foot .,3 sida s;,ni,a, ~
+ho wo,n1s s,;d !. 1901. i"",1.
''0 or'"' '".o " ''A'o oec'i ii,.''c'eu
on lhe oouy oil Jesus OF NAZARETH dur
ing His crucilXion; that blood oo:cs
from said wounds through tho unhro.
Ion sir. ,bo, ,[o ,I,n.;,;a,, 49,,
nv" ~ '"' P'''s'''"', anu
priests arc trying to determine whether
The phenomenon can be explained bv
natural lows.
I; III, ~
~ pno.'0''eho OH ic1''y taxes pace
without trek or deception it can be OK
plaihed. ana there is nothing miracu-
loM3 IN IT..
INC opinions OF many !llustsious,
learned thinkers and philosophers may
DO renewed Wy saying that Ignorance
ana INC love OF the marvellous on tho
one hahd, 1lsh9nest speculation on the
o9theI, are tho double causes OF miracles.
For ING ignorant every strange EVENTS
aProai2y. FOR those there IS but one
sleP rom the prodiSy 10 the miracle.
the PHENOMENON Sor uSEyowy.
Tie nhepomenop IL bo,o an, and
,,,;no o,o,,o1 ~ -. - ~,
se"uNo p'e-'i.'eu On 'ho Douy Vi MIS-
StucRenborg, OF Kentucky, can there.
iorc be no miracle; nor ia il rnioue or
unknown in the annals Of medical
scicncc or in tho history Of tho CaLho-
lie church. Now the word sticmata,
although having for scientists 4 yery
distinct meaning, is generally applied
by theologians With specific reference
10 certain marks tatooocd or branded
on tho body OF man or woman in the
limitation OF the scars Of tho wounds be.
licved BY them 10 have been inflicted
on the person OF Chriat during the
eruciiixion. These are called the miracu.
lous stigmata In contrsdis,inctiou 10
the magical stgmata.
The former, they pretend owe their
existence to special and immediate
notion OF the divinity. The latter, they
say, arc stamped on The body By the
devil. These have PLAYED 4 great part
in the trials OF witches not so very long
ago. II is well to notice that they do
not regard the appearance Of the magi-
cal stigmata as so cstraordinory as that
of the miraculous. The symptoms of
the miraculous ssigmata are that they
invariably appear during C. asls: that
they take the appearance OF fresh
wound, from which blood oozas more or
less abundantlv, ALWAYS on Friday md
in the same places in which Jesus Is
supposed to have been hurt. In nearly
all cases severe pains are felt by tho
persons so marked.
The flrst case on record ia that nj
IlaHcls OF Assist, the founder OF the
!; ii" tH o[ 1aoE IL Is reported thHt
inah;S ali in tha saI;.u U va" % e Wo ,t
-Avcrre, he fell into ecstacies. While
in trance he said he saw a sernph COM
ing toward him with the arms extended
and the feet as II fixed 10 n cross, who
made on his (Francis'sl body the five
wounds OF Christ. That on his side,
%o are told, used to bleed occasionally.
topo Alexander ~. and other wit
1leSSeS declared they saw the marks be-
lore and after Franciss death. The
special mark Of favor granted by God to
francis gave SO great an impulse to his
order tltatit threatened to leave their
rivals, the Dominicnns, in the shade.
These felt the blow very keenly. 1t
was impossible that they Should remain
long behind. their competitors.
SO in 1870 second case OF miraculous
stlgmata was put OH record. This time
they appeared on the body OF n nun Of
the Third Order Of st. Dominic She
was Catherine, daughter OF GincUmo
Benincasa nobleman iron. siona. She
became known as st. Catherine OF
Siena.
THE s-;GN,rA ap,rlprp,
I.n.,. t;....-,,"-
eeote't,s ~ ''ci DIVE f"piiciS sue Nau
manifested from her childhood tho
most religious temperament practising
.rstcr;.;oa anl ironua,tIy f,s,;,. sho
became aubicct IN hvsicrico.n niicntic
attcc,s,, II was durinJ ono nj tknsn q. !.
tacl;s- she vng tbcn twnnty.th-on ronr,
al noc-thnt thn stiyn.t; on-,noroS TO- ~,
her Indy for tho first tinn In tbo c IL ri
Pisa and i'm nreccnce nj lnr cnr;ossor
Fntbcr R,;mondo SIN wos in lho
nobit ri falling into n trance ns,nr nov ,1
takinr nj Tho S,croinent On , cor Ia,
Friday while in hrr wo,tad trnrco sLn
started VIOLENTLY rlsiut "a Il kncal Inc
nostnrc and Win arms ytratcN.I I' omi
horizontclly Shn rcmn;nnd an n orort
time 'then again iell nrostrnts Tho
momrnt gho came out Of tho trnnco shn
called her conicssor and snid 70 hin DAo
"Bc il known IN Won INV father tho,
now bear on nv BODY tho marks Of tho
cruciaxion Of our Lord jesus Christ,S
alter winch she explained how tho
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