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Agostino Gemelli

Italian Franciscan friar, physician, and psychologist who founded Milan's Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; wrote a scathing 1920 report dismissing Padre Pio's stigmata as hysteria and suggestion without ever physically examining the wounds, and later acknowledged the report's evidentiary flaws.

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  • Agostino Gemelli criticised Padre Pio Miraculous-Stigmata Thesis — Gemelli's 1920 report, written without ever examining the wounds himself, attributed them to hysteria and suggestion; he later acknowledged the report's evidentiary flaws.

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  • Agostino Gemelli was a member of Catholic Church — Franciscan friar and ordained priest alongside his medical and psychological career.

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