God's Wounds: The Remarkable Truth of Those Who Bore the Signs of Christ's Passion

In the long, wonderful, and sometimes weird history of supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church, perhaps the most stunning example is the stigmata: the miraculous appearance of Christ's holy wounds on the bodies of ordinary believers. For centuries, these manifestations of the marks of Jesus's passion have been a subject of great piety and devotion--and controversy. Are they real or are they faked? What is the evidence? And if they are real, what could possibly be God's reason for caus...