The painting's subject is a matter of some debate, but it is most likely St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Mount Alverna.
And once, it seems to me, as I was skirting the school playfield, a ball thrown or kicked by him hit me in the midriff, making me feel like St. Francis receiving the stigmata.
She claimed to have had mystical experiences, including marrying Christ and receiving the stigmata, but it seems that her nuns didn't like her very much (she was bossy), and suspicions arose.
Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is the name given to two unsigned paintings completed around 1428 32 that art historians usually attribute to the Flemish artist, Jan van Eyck.
In the early 1470s Sandro Botticelli, Verrochio, Filippino Lippi and Giovanni Bellini each produced variations of St Francis Receiving the Stigmata that included motifs from van Eyck's version, especially evident in the rendering of the rocky background.
Francis kisses a leper, speaks to the birds, receives the stigmata, dies in a state of suffering joy.
The latter is the mountaintop retreat where St Francis received his stigmata, which is why it's one of Italy's major pilgrimage sites.
She soon received the stigmata and began to experience mystical visions of the Virgin Mary and, especially, of the sufferings and Passion of Jesus.
The main Menotti score playing this year at Spoleto was "The Saint of Bleecker Street," which concerns a young woman who has apparently received the stigmata and become an object of veneration, against the wishes of her unbelieving brother.
"The Stigmatization of St. Francis" (published 1586) is an arresting engraving of the saint in the wilderness, kneeling in ecstasy, hands outstretched to receive the stigmata conveyed by rays from above.
