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Saint Gema Galgani-THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST

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Saint Gema Galgani
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THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST
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On June 8, 1899, at communion, Jesus warned him that in the afternoon he was going to receive a very great grace. She tells it like this: he The afternoon arrived. Suddenly, sooner than usual, I felt seized by a very strong internal pain for my sins; as strong as I have ever felt. Pain that almost made me die right there. After this, I felt collected in all the powers of the soul…

The inner recollection was soon followed by the loss of my senses and I found myself in the presence of my heavenly mother who had my guardian angel at her right, who the first thing she told me was to perform the act of contrition. Once it was done, the mother told me these words: “Daughter, in the name of Jesus, all your sins be forgiven.” Then, she added: “My son Jesus loves you very much and he wants to do you a very great favor. Will you know how to make yourself worthy of her?

My misery did not know what to answer. She continued saying: “I will be your mother, will you know how to show yourself as a true daughter?” She spread her cloak and covered me with it. At that moment, Jesus appeared with all the wounds open, but no blood came out of the wounds, flames of fire came out, which in a moment came to burn my hands, feet and side.

I thought I was dying and I would have fallen to the ground if the heavenly mother had not supported me, always keeping me covered with her mantle. For several hours I had to maintain that posture. Afterwards, my mother kissed me on the forehead, everything disappeared and I found myself kneeling on the ground, but she continued to feel severe pain in her hands, feet and side.

I got up to get into bed, but I noticed that blood was coming out of those parts that hurt. I covered them as best I could and then, helped by the angel, I was able to lie down on the bed. And these pains and these sores, instead of afflicting me, filled me with perfect peace. In the morning, I was barely able to go to communion, and I put gloves on my hands so that nothing would be seen.

I couldn’t stand up; At every moment I thought I was dying. Those pains lasted until three o’clock on Friday, the solemn feast of the Heart of Jesus.

Father Germán, its director, states: From that day on, it was repeated periodically every week, from Thursday night, around eight o’clock, until three in the afternoon on Friday… Once the ecstasy was over On Friday, blood stopped coming out of both the side and the hands and feet.

The raw flesh dried little by little, the lacerated tissues united and healed, and the next day or Sunday at the latest, not the slightest vestige of those deep tears remained in the center or on the periphery; the skin covered them evenly as in the healthy parts…

Until it was prohibited by the directors of Gema, the phenomenon of the appearance of the sores occurred in a regular and constant manner every week on Thursdays and Fridays without them manifesting themselves on any other day, no matter how memorable it was, not even in cases in which the ecstasies were repeated in an extraordinary manner46.

Sister Julia of Saint Joseph certifies: I have seen Gema’s sores… I saw Gema’s right hand with a hole that went through the entire hand from the back to her palm. The flesh, at the beginning, that is, on the top of the hand and at the end of the hole under it, the flesh was as if raised and bloody, just as happens when a thick nail pierces a hand. What I saw and how I saw her on this occasion was also seen by two other nuns: Sister Mary Magdalene and Sister Daughter of Mary. This happened on a Friday; The next day, Saturday, there was no trace on Gema’s hand. Mrs. Cecilia says:

I have seen the stigmata on Gema’s hands and feet many times and the wound on her side twice.
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