List of Present Day People Who Bare the Wounds of Christ

Previously published in Examiner
Part 4 of the Stigmata Series

Stigmata is usually associated with the wounds that Christ received at the time of his crucifixion and now suddenly appear upon human beings. There are about 350 cases reported in the last 700 years, including one case of a Montreal woman, Georgette Fanel, who just died in 2002. Georgette Fanel, was also said to have seen the Virgin Mary and visited Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Hercegovina where six people were reported to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary as well.

Present Day Cases of Stigmata

The short sentences provided here do not do justice to the experiences of these ordinary people, please go to the link provided and read about their stories in more detail.

Dorothy Kerin (1889-1963)- church-going woman, member of St. Marks Anglican Church in England, had the signs of stigmata on her left side.

Ethel Chapmam (1921-1980) - received visions of Christ and the stigmata.

Jane Hunt - had the stigmata in 1985, along with visions, it went away in 1987 after she had a hysterectomy.

George H. Scotland - received the stigmata the same time as Jane Hunt. He became deathly ill and had to eat from a feeding tube, he also had auditory messages from whom he believed to be the devil.

Father Bruse, USA, became stigmatic in 1991.

Heather Woods (reported in 1992) - deacon of an Episcopalian Church, shows signs of stigmata.

Please go to the sources and read about the rest of the Stigmatics and their stories.

Gloria Robinson - USA

Georgette Fanel of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MICHELE IMPROTA - ITALY

AMPARA CUEVA

For a more detailed account of the lives of the above mentioned people click here:

Note: These stigmata wounds should occur by divine intervention and is discounted if they have been found to be self inflicted.

Stigmata have never been fully proven, and most humans bearing the stigmata are females.

Skeptics who do not believe that is possible to bear the stigmata of Christ, claim that the devote who bear these marks are frauds, attention seekers, or are mentally ill.

To be continued

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata

http://www.stmarksenfield.org/aboutus.htm

http://www.stigmata-themovie.com/cases_present.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata