{"id":86640,"date":"2026-09-17T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86640"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:27:07","slug":"why-st-francis-stigmata-is-celebrated-on-september-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-st-francis-stigmata-is-celebrated-on-september-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Why St. Francis\u2019 Stigmata Is Celebrated On September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/WEB-Saint_Francis_Receiving_the_Stigmata-GRECO-PD.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;q=85\" alt=\"SAINT FRANCIS RECEIVING THE STIGMATA\" width=\"430\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While St. Francis is widely known for his love of animals and his radical poverty, he is also one of the <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2021\/09\/20\/st-francis-might-have-been-the-first-to-receive-the-stigmata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earliest saints to have received the stigmata of Jesus Christ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[O]n a certain morning about <strong>the Feast of the Exaltation of Holy Cross<\/strong>, while he was praying on the side of the mountain, he beheld a Seraph having six wings, flaming and resplendent, coming down from the heights of heaven&#8230;as the vision disappeared, it left in his heart a wondrous glow, but on his flesh also it imprinted a no less wondrous likeness of its tokens. For forthwith there began to appear<strong> in his hands and feet the marks of the nails, even as he had just beheld them in that Figure of the Crucified. <\/strong>It is certainly providential that St. Francis received the wounds of Jesus on a feast day that commemorates the Holy Cross. This miraculous event continues to be celebrated by the Franciscan Order as a special liturgical feast on <strong>September 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: While St. Francis is widely known for his love of animals and his radical poverty, he is also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86641,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86640\/revisions\/86641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}