The Stigmasof the seer |
The stigmatizedBetween those who have received the stigmas, that is to say, the wounds of Christ, are: San Francisco de Asís, Saint Catherine of Siena, Teresa Neumann and Father Pio of Pietrelcina. At the present time the same happens with very few persons and one of them is Gladys Quiroga de Motta of San Nicholas. On October 23rd 1984, Father Perez sent the following prophetic report to his bishop: "Gladys accepts the physical and
moral sufferings, since she considers them necessary for the fulfillment
of God's plan and the redemption. She is understanding all this gradually,
and in these last months her silence has been accentuated:
it is, fundamentally, an inner silence. She is learning
to keep silence being in her house, or accompanied by her interlocutors.
Her increasing inner dialogue with the Lord. turns her quieter , in spite
of her desire to communicate what she is living. (...) I think that
she id called to live the great pains of the Passion
(...)".
According to father Perez explanations, the first physical signs that the visionary experienced were those that are known as "inner stigmas", that is to say, not visible externally. They are not bleeding wounds, but "a simple inner inflammation of the skin, irritation and pain ". The external signs appear later. On Friday 16th November 1984, Gladys suffered the pains of the Passion. Stigmas appeared and would continue to appear on Thursdays and Fridays of the Advent of 1984 and during Lent, year after year. Dr. Pellicciotta describes the phenomenon of the stigmatization of Gladys as follows: "She begins with an eruption in the forehead of an inflammatory kind, an edematization (...) as if they were lines in all the forehead. She had a deep pain in the head (...), I gave her a tablet of corticoids (...); but it did not disappear (...). There began the first stigmatization. "On the following days pigmentation appeared in the wrists(...) where the medium nerve is placed. We have three nerves in the arm: the cubital nerve, the medium nerve and the radial nerve. An injury on any of them, logically, prevents us from different movements. When injuring the medium nerve, the thumb retracts (...) The skin starts opening and, later, it bleeds (...) her feet and knees are kept totally sticked but the extraordinary fact is that her feet are in hypertension (if you stretch the feet in hypertension, the calf of the leg gets totally stiffened as well as the knees (and if you stretch out the feet in hypertension, your calf of the leg gets hardened) but Gladys' knees and feet are totally flaccid". "The Bishop could verify all this (...)." On Good Friday she is cruxified on the bed (...). She suffers terrible pains (...)." Later she also had a wound with the form of a cross in the chest (...). On Holy Fridays there appear different types of flagelations but in a partial form, not as Christ's flagelation , but as if they were pieces of flagelation, as if they were fragmented. Then, her back aches and one sees, for example, that she has like a lash (whipping) (...)." Much pain, much anguish, much sadness (...)." What is surprising is that on Saturday of Glory everything disappears and on Sunday she celebrates Easter". Dr. Carlos M. Pellicciotta and Dr. Eduardo Juan Telechea, cardiologist, sent by the Bishop, analyzed the phenomenon meticulously. Dr. Telechea explains the following : " there have been other marks; but the most important ones are the stigmas of the wrists (...). There is a peculiarity: In one of the arms there is a single mark and in the other one there are two points as if it had been nailed twice in one arm (...). This is in accordance with the Holy Shroud. (...). Jesus was nailed twice in one arm because they did not find the right place (...)." On Fridays it bleeds, (...) On Saturdays it begins to form a crust and on Sundays and Mondays the skin is normal again. A red mark remains that on Thursday starts to get redder again and on Fridays of Lent the ulcer appears again". On Fridays of Lent this takes place
with more intensity. Some years this process begins in
the time after Christmas.
Indeed, it is impossible to explain the causes of this phenomenon within the limits of medical science. Nevertheless, the results of some scientific researches allow us to associate it with an extraordinary manifestation. The spots appear in the wrists and not in the palm of the hand. According to the description of doctors Pellicciotta and Telechea, the thumbs of Gladys are contracted when the wrists are ulcered. The doctors also analyzed the blood of the wounds and their observations determined the nonexistence of artificial dye or other products. The stigmas of the wrists appeared during the Advent and Lent; but the blood starts to flow on Good Fridays. Internal stigmas of the feet only appear on Good Fridays. They begin towards 3 PM (hour in which Jesus died). Each Good Friday the shoulder of Gladys is marked by an extended spot which is very painful. According to Sister Marta " Gladys suffers much more by the pain that men cause to the hearts of Jesus and Mary (and that she sees) than by the pains of the stigmas which give her the grace of beeing united to the sufferings of Jesus in the Cross ". Some years the stigmatization diminishes in grade. Father Perez explains the sense of these signs and says: "When there are extraordinary graces
they do not need to take place indefinitely. God produces them when
He wants and also they retire when God wants. At the present
moment (...), they gradually tend to be more scattered (...).
That is to say that this can last indefinitely or it
may be possible that it does not last. That does not affect at all
the sense that these events have (...) which are that the Lord, through
a participation in the sufferings of the Passion makes us understand
the importance that every Christian participate freely, in
assuming the part of the Passion of Christ that corresponds
to him. Stigmas are a visible exteriorization of this inner
content which is the deepest one".
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