The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeFrancis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is often considered to be the first account of an individual receiving the five wounds of Christ. The thirteenth century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6: 17 I bear the stigmata of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body had been circulating in biblical commentaries since late antiquity. These works