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4 Jul 2025

Bearing The Stigmata

Ego autem stigmata Domini Jesu in corpore meo porto.

Qui post adventum Christi in carne circumciditur, non portat stigmata Domini Jesu; sed habet gloriam in confusione sua. Qui vero in plagis supra modum, in carceribus frequenter, ter virgis caesus est, semel lapidatus est, et caetera quae in catalogo scripta sunt gloriandi, hic stigmata Domini Jesu in corpore suo portat. Forte et is qui macerat corpus suum, et subjicit servituti, ne aliis praedicans ipse reprobus inveniatur, portat stigmata Domini Jesu in corpore suo. Laetabantur et apostoli quod digni fuerant pro nomine Jesu contumeliam pati.

Sanctus Hieronymus, Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Galatas, Liber III, Cap VI

Source: Migne PL 26.438a
But I bear the stigmata of the Lord Jesus on my body... 1

He who after the coming of Christ is circumcised in the flesh does not bear the stigmata of the Lord Jesus, but he glories in his confusion. However he who receives blows for the way, and frequent imprisonments, and has fallen three times, and was once stoned, and the other things which are recorded for glory, 2 he bears the stigmata of the Lord Jesus on his body. And perhaps even he who emaciates his body and subjects it to servitude, lest he merit reproof when preaching to others, bears the stigmata of the Lord Jesus on his body. 3 And the Apostles rejoiced that they were worthy to suffer abuse for the name of Jesus. 4

Saint Jerome, Commentary on the Letter to the Galatians, Book 3, Chapter 6

1 Galat 6.17
2 2 Cor 23-25
3 1 Cor 9.27
4 Act 5.41

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