Stigmas of the barber An ordinary girl hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Frankie suddenly suddenly appeared bleeding through wounds on her hands, and then traces of flogging. No one knows where they came from, the sado-maso girl was not carried away, and she excludes suicide. In general, it is still a mystery, but it occurs to the local priest that these may be stigmata, wounds similar to those that Christ received on Calvary during the crucifixion. True, they appear with very religious people like Francis of Asiz, and our heroine is an absolute atheist with a penchant for hanging out in nightclubs, but what the hell does it matter? The Vatican has a right to know what is happening. The Holy Concordat could not pass by such a strange situation and sent to the place of his representative Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), who was fined by the fact that he found a statue of the Madonna crying with blood somewhere in Brazil, where the church was not born again. While Andrew tries to explain to the girl that something, but stigmata she can not have the girl receives traces from the crown of thorns on her forehead and shouts in Aramaic something about the fact that, breaking a stone, there you can find Christ.
Then there will be a few more mystical phenomena and Andrew will have to protect the girl from the evil Vatican, which of course wants to hide from the world the true words of Christ.
We have heard a lot of stories about the crimes of the Vatican recently, starting with the work of Dan Brown and ending with the story about the illegal financial transactions of the Holy See (Bankers of God), but in contrast to these stories, the film of Comrade Wainwright looks rather strange, starting with the fact that in some places it is actually scary, and quite a serious departure from the basic canons of the Church. Still, to suggest that stigmata spread like depriving, and that the messenger of God can be rid of as much as the devil by mere exorcism, is quite strong and very heretical from the point of view of any church, including the most radical Protestants.
And so on. The Gospel of Thomas remains an apocrypha, that is, a spiritually useful reading, but unlike the canonical 4 Gospels, it is by no means divinely inspired.
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