St. Paul is thought to have said he had the sitgmata.
***St. Paul is thought to have said he had the sitgmata.***
Source?
I have a copy of "A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture" by Dom Orchard, et al and the notes, "The marks of the Lord Jesus are almost certainly the marks of the ill-teatment he had already received in Galatia during his first missionary journey.
My Douai notes; "Formerly it was not unusual to stamp certain characters on the bodies of soldiers, fugitives, and of domestics, purposely to identify them"
I hadn't heard that Paul might have had the stigmata. I was learnt St. Francis was the first.