On the 17th of September, members of the Franciscan Order celebrate a feast in honor of the day on which St. Francis received the Stigmata, the marks of the crucifixion, on his body. He had been spending a time of solitary prayer atop Mt. Alverna in Italy. During his prayer he asked God to show him a sign that he had been forgiven the sins of his youth when he had led a rather hedonistic...