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Doctors' reports and diagnosis
Marta Godziek’s home was open to all those who
wanted to meet with Catherine. Basia was a frequent guest – then a student of
medicine – now a doctor.
I first met Catherine Szymon
in 1982 when together with a group of students from an academic ministry we
came as we had learnt of an incredible phenomenon - stigmata. She came across
as a very simple woman, but very intelligent. In a few simple words she would
hit home. The stigmata she had on her hands
were huge wounds that kept bleeding from crevices. Her wounds gave off an
aroma. It was the scent of flowers. While
in ecstasy, Jesus and Mother of God would speak to us through her mouth, teaching
us human dignity. For example: The mother of God told us, the students of
medicine, that every ill child or adult should be treated as Jesus Himself. It was very uplifting to us. We kept coming
there and sang. Catherine was a cheerful friendly person. Full of love to God
and her fellow human beings. It was a great school of life to us.
This testimony may be viewed in the film
Catherine Szymon received the
stigmata of the five Wounds of Jesus on March 8, 1946, on the first Friday of Lent. At
first they were small wounds Catherine
managed to hide. However, as time passed, they got larger and bled more and
more profusely. Włodzimierz Wojciechowski, doctor of medicine, says:
I got to know Catherine Szymon
in autumn of 1984. I can express my opinion on her stigmata as a doctor. I must
admit that it was the first time I had seen this marvel of stigmata. Her
stigmata were round flat clots on both sides of her palms and feet about 3 cm
in diameter. The skin around the clots was corrugated and wrinkled. I heard
stories on how her stigmata were examined in different ways. The clots were
removed, for example, and the surface of fresh scars appeared. I also once
watched her stigmata bleeding. It looked like this: on the edges of the clots a
serious – haemorrhagic areola appeared, flowing and spreading radially from
under the clots. It had a fragrance of violets or roses.
Which would not if her
stigmata had been false, pricked – that is pricked with needles,
or some kind of a knife. But
in this case – just two hours after she died, the wounds were healing and took
four days to heal up. It looked as though the clots were subliming, that is
evaporating. Her skin smoothed out, and it could be said that at the moment
of Catherine’s funeral, there were only
clot marks left on her body.
This testimony may be viewed in the film
Catherine Szymon died on
August 24, 1986. The moment she died, the stigmata she had borne for over 40
years started miraculously to heal, confirming thus their supernatural
character.
