Stigmata or self inflicted wounds?
What are your thoughts?
2007-12-27 08:06:10 · 11 answers · asked by Papucho 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been reading a little about him. I did not find mention of the stigmata being discounted. I would appreciate if someone provided with a link talking about it. Thank you in advance.
2007-12-27 08:16:43 · update #1
He was under very close observation, and there was never any indication that he inflicted the wounds on himself. The person who's claiming that he used carbolic acid is just another in a long line of sensationalists who use saints like Padre Pio and Mother Teresa for their own gain and glory.
I'd vote for his stigmata being the real deal.
2007-12-27 08:14:59 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Padre Pio was a great man, one of the greatest saints of the modern era. He was indeed inflicted with the blessing of stigmata. His stigmata was legit, and he tried to hide it at all cost so to not try and advertise the fact that he had it. Padre Pio was also blessed with the charism of discernment. He could tell if someone was holding back sin during the Sacrament of Confession, and many who have confessed to him have come forth and expained this happening.
2007-12-27 16:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by Nic B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I've read a lot about Padre Pio. Fascinating figure. I don't believe his wounds were self-inflicted but we will never know if it is a spiritual phenomenon or if it was a psychological/physical phenomenon. I'm OK with that. He seemed a good man.
As far as I know, the Church investigated his wounds while they were happening. His stigmata has NEVER been questioned in terms of it's reality in the Church. Me: former Catholic/Buddhist
2007-12-27 16:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by Yogini 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Stigmata. He tried to hide it. If it was self inflicted to look like stigmata, he wouldn't have hid it.
2007-12-27 16:14:43 · answer #4 · answered by magix151 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do know who padre Pio is, and I don't believe anything supernatural happened. I will not say it was self inflicted, but not supernatural stigmata, either.
2007-12-27 16:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Psychosomatic. His intense devotion to the idea of the "suffering Christ" provoked a sympathetic physiological reaction.
Admittedly this theory is almost as mysterious as the straight-up "stigmata" theory - but it's well-known that a person's psychological state impacts his physiological state. We can't necessarily explain the precise mechanism, but it happens. There are, incidentally, "stigmatics" of other religions (cf. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, for example), and similar phenomena have been observed outside of any religious context.
2007-12-27 16:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the stigmata were specifically discounted by the committee that beatified padre pio.
he is a saint. from a roman catholic point of view everything else about his life on earth is now irrrelevant.
2007-12-27 16:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on whether you believe people can get the stigmata or not . . .
2007-12-27 17:10:23 · answer #8 · answered by James Bond 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it's self inflicted, he did a good job masking it- the "devil's advocate" brought it up during his canonization, and they didn't find fraud.
also, he took a lot of insults for that. Specifically, he was called "a self-mutilating (something or other)"
my vote is stigmata
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2007-12-27 16:10:54 · answer #9 · answered by Quailman 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I read about him.
Stigmata is indeed a real, unexplained phenomenon; whether it is truly a miraculous occurrence is all based on one's perspective and faith.
2007-12-27 16:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋