title: Stigmata (Routledge Classics) (Volume 114)
author: Hlne Cixous
description: Hlne Cixous (1937- ) Born in Algeria, Cixous spent her childhood in France. Known for her experimental writing that crosses the traditional limits of academic discourse into poetic language, she is equally well known for her work in education and as a novelist and a playwright.
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  Ladies and Gentlemen,
  Jt
  is with emotion and joy that
  I speak to you to-day about Marie-
  Julie Jahenny who had the stigmata and was from La Fraudais near
  Blain in Brittany,
  I knew her well and received great graces during her ecstasies at
  which I assisted,.
  First of all, what is the stigmata ?
  Tanquerey, in his < Precis of Ascetical and Mystical Theology w says
  ;
  « This phenomenon consists of a sort of impression of the sacred
  wounds of the Saviour on the feet, hands, side and forehead
  ; they
  appear spontaneously, without provocation by any exterior wound and
  blood that is not corrupt flows from them periodically...
  It seems to be an established fact that stigmatisation exists only with
  ECSTATICS and that
  it is preceded and accompanied by VERY GREAT
  suffering, physical and moral, which thus makes the