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• n  marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
• n  the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
• n  a symbol of disgrace or infamy
• n  an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
• n  a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease

• The credulous who saw the blood flowing from Padre Pio's hands, feet and side cried, "It is the stigmata!" And the monk's fame began to spread.
• Many people accept cures and stigmata t their face value, as mystic phenomena, 'hat the scars and blood exist is well attested.
• The church, which does not hold that stigmata are necessarily caused by supernatural means, at first treated Padre Pio with cautious skepticism.

• stigma
• mark
• brand
• stain

News & Articles

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• Artist Embroiders His Loved Ones Into His Own Flesh
  With apologies to Frank Sinatra, he's got you... under his skin. Horf alert. Whether just a photograph in a wallet or a strand of hair in a locket, most of us carry a part of our loved ones around with us. Artist David Rodríguez does a lot more than that, though: he turns these mementos into stigmata by sewing the likenesses of his loved ones with thread right into his skin. Read Full Story ...
  Jan. 20, 2014 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Russell Brand in Reuters
  After the show, host Russell Brand described the event as "the resurrection of Britney Spears. I saw stigmata."
• Derryn Hinch in The Age
  All history owes debts to the truth,Hinch said. "I know he had the disease. He had the, sadly, the stigmata of the black spots you get when you've got AIDS."
• José Saraiva Martins in Zenit News Agency
  Emmerick, an Augustinian religious and a native of Westphalia, "bore the stigmata of the Lord's Passion and received extraordinary charisms that she used for the consolation of numerous visitors," said Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of...