Review of Stigmata (1999) by Diameter — 27 Apr 2021

The movie revolves about two unrelated concepts between them but they two are related with Christianity, stigmas and apocryphal gospels. Stigmas are the different hurts (five in total) suffered by Jesus during The Passion after to be condemned to death: he was tortured with a whiplash in his back, lacerating it; he was forced to wore a crown of thorns in the head, making it bleed; his hands and feet (it counts as two) were crossed by long nails when he was crucified, and finally (six hours later) a soldier nailed his spear in Jesus' left side to verify that he was dead.

As movie establishes, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226 AD) was the first person in history documented to suffer stigmas, replicating in his body the same hurts suffered by Jesus, as well the rest of stigmatized in later centuries, not existing a case about a non-believer suffering stigmas.

Apocryphal gospel refers any ancient parchment, papyrus and codex that it talks about Jesus and his followers (apostles) but that it's rejected by thr Vatican with independence of the antiquity and time when it was written (even if it was made when Jesus was alive) if the text questions, contradicts, denies or gives a different version of the official established by the Vatican after Council of Nicaea celebrated in 325 AD, where the 318 bishops reunited by Emperor Constantine the Great redacted Holy Bible as it has been known ahead.