The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-02
Think GIRL IS
TRUE ST|CMAT|C
Reported to Have Sign Of the
Cross on Her Right Side.

The case of Mary Reilly, postu
liant at st. Germans villa, the Peeks
| kill IN. W convent Of the Sisters Of
| the Good Shepherd, who is under con
| slant observation to establish whether
| she is true stigmatic has created
widespread interest. The seal of 81
lence imposed by Archbishop Hayes
upon all who have knowledge of the
! situation remains unbroken.
A stigmatic is person who bears
on hands, feet, side or brow the marks
of the Passion and undergOes CORE
spending and intense suffering Some
have sufferings without the markings,
and these are called invisible stigmata.
In the case Of Mary Reilly 1t Is said
she has stigma which is only one
mark of the Passion. In her case 1t
is reported that the mark is the sign
Of a cross on her right side and that
she suffers considerably.
Her case has created interest In
the stigmata, as feature OF eccle-
siastical history. 1t has been sub
ject of keen discussion among clerics
and publicists, Catholic, non-Catho-
lie and heretical, since the first record
Of such a development found its way
into church history. This was in the
Thirteenth century, when the most
notable case was recorded. This was
st. Francis of Assist. In him it took
the form Of the nail wounds on the
hands and feet, the wounds having
excrescences Of flesh, representing the
nails of the Crucifixlon. On one side
these excrescences were black and like
nail heads. On the other side they ap-
peared to be points which had been
bent back to grasp the flesh.
Marie de Moerl, at the age OF TWEEN
ty (1S22), was another instance and,
though delicate in health, lived In that
condition 35 years. Thursdays and
Fridays her stigmata shed very clear
blood, becoming dry on other days.
Thousands saw this woman, includ-
ing Wiseman and Lord Shrewsbury,
who wrote about her. Louise Lateau
of Belgium, at eighteen, became stig-
matte, which did not prevent her from
supporting her people by sewing.
She was born in 1850. Another was
st. Catherine of Siena.
Even free-thinking puDlicists who
have investigated reported cases adj
nit that the stigmata existed as
fact, notably Doctor Dumas, pro-
lessor of religious philosophy at the
<;o1o h0
ject in the Revue des Deux Mondes
of May /, 1870.
Free-thinking and Catholic scien-
lists alike have questioned the miracu-
Ious nature of these wounds and In
he processes of canonization the
church has never accepted them as in
miraculous. 1t is because !
If the extreme care that the church
axes In the investigation of these mat
ers that silence is generally imposed |
ipon those having knowledge of them
Until the investigation has been com
,leted
DR.. Imbert, in ia Stigmatisation,"
published in Paris in 1894, sought to
analogue the known cases of stigmata
n church history, and accounted for a
otal of 321 in which he felt there was
very reason to believe in divine &C
ion.
Many of the free-thinking scientists
ave declared that the stigmatics in
uced the condition in themselves by
ivid imaginings and emotional excite
1ent, but the church logicans have
etorted that imagination can never
reate visible, bleeding wound
The medical profession naturally in
lists that such manifestations can
9 traced to physiological causes.