Even though my description of the stigmata paintings in the museum in Cologne was quite descriptive, I felt like searching Google images to see if I could give you a better taste of the real deal. I found this on the Templars website (whoa.)-- because this painting of St. Francis receiving the stigmata is Italian (Giotto), it is not quite as gorey as those blood-thirsty (Reformation, anyone?) German paintings. But you get the idea.
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Owwww! I thought the stigmatas were spontaneous not delivered. Artist interpretation?
Jeremy and I saw at least three stigmata paintings like that in Cologne, so maybe that was the accepted idea in the Middle Ages. Probably the "strings" would be invisible to mortals?
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