Hi Everyone , I was wondering if somebody could help me with something I would like to know about the Stigmata - I think that these wounds ALWAYS come on a Thursday night and ALWAYS disappear on Sunday. :rolleyes: . Can anybody please tell me if I have got that right? :smack: . Any replies greatly appreciated.
In his column on stigmata, What’s the deal with stigmata?, Cecil makes no reference to the days of the week. I can only assume this “Thursday - Sunday” belief is not a common one.
Not the strongest of arguments given that Cecil specifically mentions that Louise Lateau ‘got them every Friday for 15 years’. And that’s by no means the only case of a stigmatic ‘receiving’ them regularly on or around Fridays.
But there are also plenty of counterexamples. Padre Pio would be perhaps the most obvious.
(Which, to stray from the strict factual issue, might suggest that the causes are cultural rather than miraculous. It may all depend on which earlier examples a particular stigmatic decides to copy.)
The Flying Spaghetti monster changed history to make Cecil look dumb.
Cheers for the info guys.