• Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata

  • Sep 26 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata

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  • The wounds that Christ received on the cross - the stigmata - have had a strange afterlife, reappearing on the flesh of followers from St Francis of Assisi right through to the present. The stigmata are most commonly found on young women and are often accompanied by other miracles. What can this strange history teach us?


    Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined today by Kristof Smeyers author of Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in modern Britain and Ireland


    Edited and produced by Freddy Chick and Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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