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On the day of his death, Jesus suffered five penetrating wounds to his body. Soldiers placed a crown of thorns on the top of his head, then drove nails threw both of his wrist and feet and placed him on the cross to die. After the soldiers thought that he was dead one man pierced Jesus’s side with a spear and watched blood and water pour out. These five wounds have reappeared all across the world on 62 different saints as well as about 250 normal people like you and I. These wounds are called Stigmata which comes from the Greek word meaning “sign” or “mark”. What does this mean? Scientist and religious leaders have debated this for centuries yet no one has come forward with substantial evidence to conclude anything. The first reported case of stigmata was in 1224 ce. of St. Frances of Assissi, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. About two years before he died St. Frances was on top of a Mount. Alverna in Italy when he had a vision of an angle carrying a cross with a man nailed to it. At the same time he felt very sharp pains as if he were being stabbed on both palm, his feet, his side, and across his forehead. People around him repor