Editing Franciscans (section)

===Visions and stigmata===
Among Catholic religious, Franciscans have proportionally reported higher ratios of [[stigmata]] and have claimed proportionally higher ratios of [[visions of Jesus and Mary]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2013}} [[Francis of Assisi]] himself was one of the first reported cases of stigmata, and perhaps the most famous stigmatic of modern times is [[Padre Pio]], a Capuchin, who also reported visions of Jesus and Mary. Pio's stigmata persisted for over fifty years and he was examined by numerous [[physician]]s in the 20th century, who confirmed the existence of the wounds, but none of whom could produce a medical explanation for the fact that his bleeding wounds would never get [[Infection|infected]]. According to the ''[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]'', his wounds healed once, but reappeared.<ref>''Britannica Online Encyclopedia'', [https://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9375317 Padre Pio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929204502/https://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9375317 |date=2007-09-29 }}</ref> 

According to the ''[[Columbia Encyclopedia]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/stigmata.html|title=Bartleby.com: Great Books Online – Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130002349/http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/stigmata.html|archive-date=2007-11-30}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=June 2016}} some medical authorities who examined Padre Pio's wounds were inclined to believe that the stigmata were connected with nervous or cataleptic [[hysteria]]. According to [[Answers.com]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/pio-padre |title=Padre Pio: Biography and Much More from |publisher=Answers.com |access-date=2013-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512170201/http://www.answers.com/topic/pio-padre |archive-date=2013-05-12 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=June 2016}} the wounds were examined by Luigi Romanelli, chief physician of the City Hospital of Barletta, for about one year. [[Giorgio Festa]], a private practitioner examined them in 1920 and 1925. [[Giuseppe Bastianelli]], a physician to [[Pope Benedict XV]], agreed that the wounds existed but made no other comment. Pathologist [[Amico Bignami]] observed the wounds, but made no [[Medical diagnosis|diagnosis]].