NOUN
- a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
How To Use stigmatist In A Sentence
- He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic.
- A sham stigmatist might well avoid those areas which would be subjected to additional pain - and made more difficult to heal - whenever one walked or grasped something.
- In June, for example, two thousand Irish pilgrims each paid around €1,000 to fly to Rome for a week for the canonisation of Italian Capuchin stigmatist Padre Pio.
- He based the script on the four Gospels and a book by 19th-century German stigmatist, the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich.
- Thousands of Irish people are expected to fly to Rome next year for the canonisations of an Italian stigmatist, a South American Indian and the founder of Opus Dei.
