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'''Stigmata''' are marks on a person's [[body]], that are like the [[wound]]s [[Jesus]] got from being [[crucified]].

They supposedly happen to other [[religion|religious]] people like [[Saint Francis of Assisi]], as well as Jesus. The marks include [[nail]] holes in the hands and feet, as if the person had been [[crucified]], but without that having happened.
== Contradictions ==
Those who believe in stigmata say that actual nails were not used, but the holes just appear as a [[miracle]]. Those who do not believe say it is not a miracle. They have other ways to explain those stories.


== Stigmata Media ==
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File:Lienz - Fanziskanerkirche - Außenansicht - Hände mit Stigmata.jpg|Hands with ''stigmata'', depicted on a [[Order of Saint Francis|Franciscan]] church in [[Lienz]], [[Austria]]

File:Munchhausen StPantaleon 50.JPG|''[[Catherine of Siena|St Catherine]] fainting from the stigmata'' by [[Il Sodoma]], Church of Saint Pantaleon, [[Alsace, France]]

File:Cigoli, san francesco.jpg|Saint [[Francis of Assisi]] contemplating the wounds of stigmata as part of the ''[[Imitation of Christ]]''

File:Giotto. Stigmatization of St Francis. 1295-1300. 314x162cm. Louvre, Paris.jpg|[[Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto)|Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata]] by [[Giotto]]

File:El Greco - The Stigmatization of St Francis - WGA10562.jpg|St. [[Francis of Assisi]], by [[El Greco]]

File:Padre Pio of Pietrelcina with the stigmata.jpg|A young [[Padre Pio]] showing the stigmata

File:Rumoldasterfbed.tif|[[Belgium|Belgian]] {{ill|Sister Rumolda|nl|Zuster Rumolda}} on her deathbed with stigmata (1948)

File:Domenico Beccafumi - Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena - WGA01536.jpg|Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena
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