Christus DEL
Christian vocation is not a choice. It is not the result of reason or desire. God chose a life for him and he accepted it from childhood. His seminary journey to become a priest was marked by events that indelibly marked his growth. They led him to live his faith in a totalitarian way. By the will of God, without any thought or action to alienate him from his from his journey."Give yourself, please, become a tool to spread the Word of God, to convert, to save souls, to give hope"."I got the redness and the pain from a certain moment in my childhood; the first time I bled was on a Friday, I was in the hills. Then everything stopped, every wound closed and I did not bleed for many years. Only on Holy Fridays did the signs reappear, so it was easy to hide well. "
Christian was born on the island of Ponza, Italy, to a Catholic family. He felt his vocation for the first time at the age of six, and at the age of 13 he received the stigmata for the first time while praying on the hills near his house, that same year he moved to the mainland to begin his seminary studies to become a priest. His spiritual director was Father Amorth, a notorious Italian exorcist, who took him under his protection and helped him grow. Through the pain, difficulties and isolation that the stigmata caused him. He changed several seminaries because of the tensions that his particular situation created with other seminarians. While in Rome, Bishop Alessandro Gemma, who became one of the most passionate supporters of his phenomena. Christian is supported by a small Marian association called AMARLIS, whose members pray with him and help him during the most difficult period of stigmatization, the Holy Week before Easter. Today, Christian lives in an isolated place in central Italy to avoid the crowds and to continue his theological studies.
He is 29 years old and has not yet become a priest.
The first appearance of the stigmata phenomenon is dated 1224 A.D. On September 14, St. Francis of Assisi received the signs 2 years before his death while praying on Mount Penna (Arezzo, Italy). Since then, many other people have claimed to have been blessed by the "stigmata gift", although the Vatican has always been skeptical about these signs. The stigmata phenomenon has been analyzed several times throughout history. It is something that happens only in the Catholic religion. There are many theories about the origin of this kind of phenomenon, the first one explains stigmata as voluntary or involuntary self-inflicted wounds. The first theory explains the stigmata as voluntary or involuntary self-inflicted wounds, a behaviour driven by the desire to be in the limelight or simply to be as close as possible to the appearance of God and to feel His pain. The second theory is based on hysterical neurosis, which in the skin problems, as well as vascular and motor problems. The third theory is based on pathological somatization, purpura-psychotic syndrome (Gardner & Diamond syndrome), which could cause the appearance of which could cause stigmata to appear in subjects under severe stress. The last theory is the supernatural origin of the phenomenon.
The total number of stigmatized people in Italy is more than 300, of whom only seven have been declared saints by the Vatican and seven have been declared blessed. According to Vatican reports,
The phenomenon of the stigmata was not taken into account in the canonization process.
