Stigmata (film)

Stigmata is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as an atheist hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomenon. Gabriel Byrne plays a Vatican official who investigates her case, and Jonathan Pryce plays a corrupt Catholic Church official.

The film opens in the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan Gabriel Byrne, a former scientist and an ordained Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examining a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida Jack Donner. While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals the rosary from the fathers hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her atheist daughter Frankie Paige Patricia Arquette living in Pittsburgh.Shortly after, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists. As the wounds are treated, the doctors cannot find the cause beyond that they are puncture wounds and go all the way through the wrist. On the way home from work on the train, Frankie approaches a priest and asks if he is Andrew Kiernan. After the priest tells her he is Father Derning, the lights in the train begin to flash, and Frankie is whipped from behind by an unseen force, Father Derning watching in horror. While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the Vatican, and Andrew is sent to investigate. ........

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