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185—The Stigmatists—Paul Kengor

By Catholic Culture Podcast ( bio - articles - email ) | Oct 16, 2024 | In The Catholic Culture Podcast

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In his new book, The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings, Paul Kengor gives a historical overview of the phenomenon of the stigmata, focusing especially on one thing many stigmatists have in common: they receive visions, often prophetic ones.

The book devotes individual chapters to seven canonized or beatified stigmatists: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine of Siena, Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich, St. Pius of Pietrelcina, St. Faustina, Bl. Elena Aiello, and St. Gemma Galgani.

Kengor joins the podcast to discuss the skepticism and attacks many stigmatists (such as Padre Pio) faced from within the Church, the prophecies of Bl. Elena Aiello about Mussolini’s fate, whether St. Francis was the first stigmatist in history, and what we ordinary Catholics can learn from the visions and experiences of the stigmatists.

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Paul Kengor, The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-stigmatists-their-gifts-their-revelations-their-warnings/

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  • Posted by: wacondaseeds4507 - Oct. 18, 2024 10:11 AM ET USA

    A friend of mine said about a stigmatist who we both personally knew (Alex Avendano who died at age 40 on Oct. 18, 2006), "The reason people don't want to believe that this is real is that, if they did, they will have to change their lives". I believe this is the reason God gives us stigmatists; they are a sign that demands our conversion.