Stigmata

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So this is the fourth?

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- What do you mean?
- When I first met you,

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didn't you say that
there were five wounds?

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WeII, this is the fourth. What's the fifth?

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The spear.

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That's the wound that kiIIed him.

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Don't worry, Frankie.

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No stigmatic has ever received
the fuII five wounds.

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Have you ever met another person
who had stigmata?

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I did make a piIgrimage to a smaII viIIage
in the mountains of southern ItaIy.

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There I met a priest caIIed Padre Pio.

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He first received the wounds
when he was 23 years of age,

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the same age as Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Who's Saint Francis of Assisi?

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Saint Francis was the first person
to receive the stigmata, in the 1 3thC.

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He was a wiId young man,
who suddenIy changed his ways

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after he'd had a vision
of being crucified aIongside Christ.

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When he woke up, his hands
and his feet were... were bIeeding.

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This priest,
were his wounds as bad as mine?

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Padre Pio.

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Sometimes he Iost a pint of bIood a day.
And he suffered terribIe demonic attacks.

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A priest?

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AII stigmatics suffer
the most intense spirituaI confIict.

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The nearer they come to God,

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the more open they are to temptation,
to eviI visions,

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to the torment of their demons.

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A smeII accompanies the wounds.
The odour of sanctity, the smeII of...

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FIowers?

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Yes.

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FIowers.

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WeII, what happened to him?

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How many wounds did he receive?

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He...

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He Iived to oId age.

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How many wounds did he receive?