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Also, if his stigmata were faked, why has all trace of them dissappeared from his body? He had the marks for 50 years! Thousands of people saw them or touched them. Doctors examined them. A few days before his death they were suddenly gone. If he had burned his flesh with acid, certainly there would be evidence of it on his skin.

I had heard/read (though I forget where) that they were not simply "suddenly gone" but that they scabbed over in his last few days, and the scabs fell off shortly after his death (within hours), leaving behind no scar whatsoever. That, at least in my opinion, means more than them simply disappearing.