Stigmata
Stigmata are marks on a person's body, that are like the wounds Jesus got from being crucified.
They supposedly happen to other 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
Hands with stigmata, depicted on a Franciscan church in Lienz, Austria
St Catherine fainting from the stigmata by Il Sodoma, Church of Saint Pantaleon, Alsace, France
Saint Francis of Assisi contemplating the wounds of stigmata as part of the Imitation of Christ
St. Francis of Assisi, by El Greco
A young Padre Pio showing the stigmata
Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena
