Stigmata

The hands and feet of St. Francis were pierced through the middle by nails, with the heads of the nails appearing in the inner side of the hands and the upper sides of the feet and their pointed ends on the opposite sides... Furthermore, his right side was as though it had been pierced by a lance and had a wound in it that frequently bled so that his tunic and trousers were very often covered with his sacred blood.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Celano, First Life

Chapter III

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