Episode 25 // Stigmata: The Blessed Miracle or The Result of an Impressionable Mind?

What do you believe in? How much do you believe in it? Do you have faith? Do you think it's possible for someone to have *so much* faith that the divine would mark them--make them bleed from their hands and feet as a reward for their devoutness? On this week's episode we look at Stigmata: The blessed miracle, religious hoax, or the result of an impressionable mind?

SOURCES:

• https://www.sma-church.org/st-francis-of-assisi-receives-stigmata-from-seraphs/

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-the-five-wounds-361799/

• https://www.etymonline.com/word/stigma

• https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/04/strange-phenomenon-stigmata/

• https://www.stfoafrisco.org/stigmata--padre-pio.html

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• https://www.healthline.com/health/hematidrosis

• https://ledermatotatoue.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/h

TRANSCRIPT:

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