Season 6 Episode 18 Extra: Reading the Signs

It is said that St Francis of Assisi was the first person to receive the stigmata, back in 1224.

Since then only thirty or so people have seriously claimed to have suffered from it, with perhaps the most famous of them being Francesco Forgione, or as he would later be known, Padre Pio.

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