Stigmata
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Stigmata, in Catholicism, are bodily wounds, scars and pain which appear in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ: the hands, wrists, feet, near the heart, the head, and ba
Hands with stigmata, depicted on a Franciscan church in Lienz, Austria
St Catherine fainting from the stigmata by Il Sodoma, Church of Saint Pantaleon, Alsace, France
Saint Francis of Assisi contemplating the wounds of stigmata as part of the Imitation of Christ
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata by Giotto
Imitation of Christ
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In Christian theology, the imitation of Christ is the practice of following the example of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, the term life in Christ is sometimes used for the same concept.
Jesus Discourses with His Disciples, James Tissot, c. 1890
13th-century copy of Confessions of Augustine, Book 7
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