Padre Pio Miraculous-Stigmata Thesis
The traditional and still-devotional reading that Padre Pio's wounds were a supernatural mark of Christ's Passion, bearing no natural explanation; the position of most of his devotees and several examining physicians, though never itself formally certified by the Church.
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- Padre Pio's Stigmata20 September 1918 - September 1968
Padre Pio Miraculous-Stigmata Thesis attempts to explain Padre Pio's Stigmata — The traditional devotional reading. The Church's 2002 canonisation rested on two independently attributed healing miracles, not on the stigmata itself.
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Padre Pio Miraculous-Stigmata Thesis was criticised by Agostino Gemelli — 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.