Publisher's Synopsis
In September 1224 St Francis of Assisi experienced the bleeding of his hands, feet and side in a fashion similar to that of the crucified Jesus. Since then hundreds of ordinary people, including housewife Jane Hunt in 1985, have experienced the same sort of bleedings, from seemingly spontaneous wounds called stigmata.;That something of this kind genuinely happens seems incontrovertible as in the last century the wounds of many stigmatics have been photographed and examined medically. Are they, however, divinely bestowed replications of the actual wounds of Jesus? or could they result from a strange mental process yet to be understood? As Ian Wilson argues, stigmata are of rather more significance than merely as some minor religious freak. If, by whatever means, the mind really does cause the flesh to change, this could have implications for some as yet incurable diseases, including cancer.
