Sentence examples for stigmata to from inspiring English sources

After the death of Francis, Brother Elias announced the stigmata to the order by a circular letter.

In 1871, Mary Ann Girling, a Suffolk farm labourer announced she was the new Messiah, with the visions and stigmata to prove it.

Thompson revisits events small and large in Francis's life, including his troubled relations with his father, his contacts with Clare of Assisi, his encounter with the Muslim sultan, and his receiving the Stigmata, to uncover the man behind the legends and popular images.

Microscopy analysis showed that both strains were able to penetrate the flower through stigmata to a similar extent.

He reappears at the end of the story, and of the giant's life, as a christ figure, complete with stigmata, promising to lead him to "my garden, which is Paradise".

Its Latin plural, stigmata, refers to Christ's crucifixion wounds, suggesting that there may be a spiritual value to being disgraced by society.

Thorough investigations of ECT effects will improve patients' feeling of safety and possibly reduce stigmata related to the condition.

A high school teacher whose frequent confrontations with a student may be signaling something more, a photographer eager to lose her virginity as long as no words are spoken and an atheist who claims to have stigmata anyway add up to fresh performances in a film rumored to have been made for just $200.

He engages in a dream encounter with an inquisitive angel, delivers a sermon to the birds -- losing ties to earthly space and time -- then prays to be wounded with the stigmata of Christ to overcome his feelings of unworthiness.

"The Order," a murky ecclesiastical horror film, may be the nadir of the subgenre that produced "The Exorcist" (at its high end) and "Stigmata" (at its middle-to-low end).

She soon received the stigmata and began to experience mystical visions of the Virgin Mary and, especially, of the sufferings and Passion of Jesus.