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The Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis
The Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis
September 17, 2017
Two years before his death St. Francis retired to Mount Alverno where he began a forty days’ fast in honor of St. Michael the Archangel. There, while in a state of continual prayer and unceasing watching, he saw in a vision a seraph with burning, dazzling wings whose feet and hands were nailed to a cross; at the same time five wounds, like those of our Lord, appeared on Francis’ feet, hands and side; from the wound in his side blood flowed. These stigmata were so fully verified that the Franciscans, since the fourteenth century, have celebrated a feast in honor of the event; the feast was inserted in the general calendar of the Roman rite by Clement IX in 1669.