Extraordinary: Gemma receives the stigmata

Gemma receives the stigmata: Gem, now in perfect health, she had always wanted to be a consecrated nun, but it didn't have to be. God had other plans for her. On June 8, 1899, after receiving communion, Our Lord let his servant know that that same evening he would give her a very great grace. Gemma went home and prayed. He went into ecstasy and felt great remorse for sin. The Blessed Mother, to whom Saint Gemma was tremendously devoted, appeared to her and told her: “My son Jesus loves you beyond measure and desires to give you a grace. I will be a mother to you. Do you want to be a real baby? ”The Most Holy Virgin then opened her cloak and covered Gemma in it.

Gemma receives the stigmata: her story

Here is how St. Gemma recounts how she received the stigmata: “At that moment Jesus appeared with all its wounds open, but from these wounds no more blood came out, but flames of fire. In a moment these flames came to touch my hands, my feet and my heart. I felt like I was dying, and I would have had to fall to the ground if my mother hadn't held me up, while I always remained under her cloak. I had to stay several hours in that position.

Eventually me kiss my forehead, everything vanished, and I found myself on my knees. But I still felt great pain in my hands, feet and heart. I got up to go to bed and realized that blood was flowing in those parts where I felt pain. I covered them as best I could, and then helped by my Angel, I managed to go to bed ... "

Below is the photo where all the handkerchiefs soiled with the blood coming from the stigmata of Saint Gemma are exhibited

During the rest of the life of Gem, several people, including respected clergymen of the Church, were witnesses of this recurring miracle of the holy stigmata to the pious girl of Lucca. An eyewitness said: “Blood came out of her (Saint Gemma's) wounds in great abundance. When he was standing, he flowed to the floor and when he was in bed he not only wet the sheets, but saturated the entire mattress. I measured some streams or pools of this blood, and they were twenty to twenty five inches long and about two inches wide. "