The Triumph of the Cross, Viewed Through the Stigmata| National Catholic Register

COMMENTARY: We commemorate the Crucifixion on Good Friday, but on Sept. 14 the cross itself is praised. Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds...

The Triumph of the Cross, Viewed Through the Stigmata| National Catholic Register
COMMENTARY: We commemorate the Crucifixion on Good Friday, but on Sept. 14 the cross itself is praised. Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds...