Stigmata

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I, I, I, I wanna put that in the list of the Stigmata's and End of Days and just, like-

Yeah

YeahLet's, let's get into it

... stigmata.

You never went to the doctor.

Stigmata.

I heard you the first time.

[laughs]

And don't get me wrong, this book is full of weird Catholic stuff.

We talk about the stigmata, relics, incorruptible saints, and we talk about saints that you maybe have never heard of that experienced those things.

Unique stigmatists like Rita of Cascia in the Stigmata of the Single Thorn, or Christina the Astonishing, a saint who rose from the dead and flew over the town.

We even talk about weird Catholic things you might not have ever heard of, things like hieronosis, which is a supernatural ability to sense when something is blessed.

So, this book is full of strange Catholic things.

But love Irving Houle.

Love this story.

I wanted to include him in my Stigmata chapter, but I did not.

People saw Padre Pio, and they saw a man who is a living image of Christ crucified.

Stigmata, the most vivid thing physical manifestation of Christ's presence associated with Padre Pio, the stigmata wounds that he received as a young man.

It began actually one month earlier, one month earlier before he got the wounds.

He had an encounter, a supernatural encounter with Padre what appeared to be a great angel of light, and the angel pierced his heart.

Zaytun gets Zaytun gets thrown in there as a nice one.

And I think you've even made an allusion maybe to Padre Pio as well with Stigmata and Purgatory, right? Right.

Are those the four main players right now as far as miracles go in the discussion?

Well, I would say more for the Catholic side, like the Eucharistic miracles probably are more relevant because it's allegedly the you know catholics hold to the doctrine of doctrine of transubstantiation which means that when the priest consecrates the host it literally becomes the flesh and blood of jesus christ usually not visibly and so you will have these claims where sometimes you'll have wafers that are consecrated that have a little bit of red on them and they put them in water to to go away that's how they have to dispose and they can't just throw it away because the body of jesus and it looks a lot like tissue and so they'll go put it under a microscope and have these doctors look at it and allegedly they can see like literally the blood ventricles and parts of heart muscle and stuff like that when it was supposed to be a wafer and so that's seen as evidence of transubstantiation that's kind of a weird miracle to have if you're not trying like what's the point of doing that supernaturally if that's not what you're trying to communicate So I'd say that one, Maron Apparitions and Stigmatist would probably be the big three.

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thrust your hands, bloody, evidential, conclusive.

It's nice to meet you.

And this week, we are going to be talking about the Quasar of Stigmata, or as it is known in the entire community, Seikanno Quasar.

based off of a manga by Hiroyuki Yoshino, who we've talked about before on the show, because he was the writer for Maihime, which that show was good, and I will continue to defend it to my grave, alongside Guilty Crown, which I will not defend, and also Macross Frontier.

No objections there.

... with Hush.

They've got Nowhere to Run by Martha and the Vanda- Vandellas, and there's also a score by the Czechoslovakian composer, Eliak Sumeral, who's notable for things like the movies Ronin, Stigmata, Battlefield Earth, and Splinter.

And, um, there was a multiplayer portion of the game, which was outsourced to Dark Side Game Studios and 2K Games, who published the game, and these are the guys who also worked on the BioShock 2 multiplayer, so you can imagine it wasn't amazing.

[laughs] I've played BioShock 2 multiplayer.