Between 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.
 (...). Sometimes this process starts after Christmas;   Some years it begins in Lent. Everything depends on the years (...)."  There is no  scientific explanation for this phenomenon." 

  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".