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In Stigmata , for instance, an unquiet dead priest is desperate to notify the world of a suppressed "fifth gospel," which, when revealed, will expose the greed and false pretenses of the Roman Catholic church.
In Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (1767-69), the saint cranes his neck (as we do) to see the weird God hovering above him: a round sun with a human face and four pairs of wings that shoots golden laser beams down into Francis' palms.
Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].
In Stigmata, Patricia Arquette plays a frenetic party girl, who, of all the people in the world, is judged to be the best candidate for mouthing lost Aramaic scriptures as unseen nails are hammered into her appendages.
He can give Patricia Arquette the stigmata and make her eyes turn red and have her speak in a man's voice in ancient languages and send her spiraling aloft in her apartment until she ends up crucified in midair.