On the day of his death, Jesus suffered five penetrating wounds to his body. Soldiers placed a crown of thorns on the top of his head, then drove nails threw both of his wrist and feet and placed him on the cross to die. After the soldiers thought that he was dead one man pierced Jesus’s side with a spear and watched blood and water pour out. These five wounds have reappeared all across the world on 62 different saints as well as about 250 normal people like you and I. These wounds are called Stigmata which comes from the Greek word meaning “sign” or “mark”. What does this mean? Scientist and religious leaders have debated this for centuries yet no one has come forward with substantial evidence to conclude anything.
The first reported case of stigmata was in 1224 ce. of St. Frances of Assissi, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. About two years before he died St. Frances was on top of a Mount. Alverna in Italy when he had a vision of an angle carrying a cross with a man nailed to it. At the same time he felt very sharp pains as if he were being stabbed on both palm, his feet, his side, and across his forehead. People around him repor
Another strong argument by nonbelievers is how all of the so called miracles are not all the same. At first people would bleed from their palms but as new evidence supported Jesus being nailed threw the wrist people began bleeding at the writs instead.
In 1999 Fox aired a television special about a woman from Bolivia named Katya Revas who was stigmatic and claimed to have discussion 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. The scientist brought her into a room with a two way mirror. They video taped her while she was talking to Jesus. Using an EEG machine to test her brain waves they found her to be in a coma state while talking to him. Also Dr. Victor Pella who was on the other side of the mirror in a sound proof room and she did not know that he was there reasoned that she was having a type of seizure like epilepsy. As he said this to a man next to him and she then turned her head at the mirror said that she was not sick and this was not a type of epilepsy. When they asked her how she knew he said this she replied Jesus told her.
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