The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi
by VP
Posted on Wednesday September 17, 2025 at 12:00AM in Tradition
Gentile da Fabriano: Saint Francis receives the Stigmata
"After ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI had obtained from Pope Honorius the confirmation of the religious Order of the Frati Minori which he had established, he resigned his office of Superior and retired to a solitary cave on Monte Alverna. There he fasted for forty days, and passed the time in all the fervor of prayer and ecstatic contemplation, and at last, transported almost to heaven by the ardor of his desires, he beheld as it were a seraph with six shining wings bearing down upon him from above, and between his wings was the form of a Man crucified. By this he understood to be figured a heavenly and immortal intelligence, subject to death and humiliation. And it was manifested to him that he was to be transformed into a resemblance to Christ, not by the martyrdom of the flesh, but by the might and fire of Divine love. When the vision had disappeared, and he had recovered a little from its effect, it was seen that in his hands, his feet, and side, St. Francis carried the wounds of our Saviour.""...He, when near to die, Was given communion with the Crucified,-
Such that the Master's very wounds were stamped
Upon his flesh. " Cardinal Newman
Favorite Practice: Devotion to the five wounds of Our Blessed Lord
Source: Short Lives of the Saints By Eleanor Cecilia DonnellyLITANY OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity one God, have mercy on us. Holy Mary, pray for us.
Patroness of the Seraphic Order, pray for us
St. Francis, an angel in purity, pray for us
St. Francis, ardent lover of poverty, pray for us
St. Francis, perfectly despising the world, pray for us
St. Francis, wonderful example of penance, pray for us
St. Francis, fervent imitator of your crucified Saviour, pray for us
St. Francis, bearing the stigmata of Christ, pray for us
St. Francis, a seraph by the ardour of your love, pray for us
St. Francis, profoundly humble, pray for us
St. Francis, pillar of the Church, and defender of the Faith, pray for us
St. Francis, who lived and died in transports of love, pray for us.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy upon us, O Lord,
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
V. Pray for us, O glorious St. Francis,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
O God, who by the merits of St. Francis, didst increase the Church with a new progeny, grant us, by his imitation, to despise earthly things, and for ever to partake of heavenly graces, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
