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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 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.

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