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* DatedHistory: Discussed in-universe. Frankie brings up the fact that she has wounds on her wrists rather than her palms as proof that she doesn't have stigmata, but Kiernan says that scientific evidence supports that Roman crucifixion actually nailed the wrists, because the palms aren't strong enough to hold up a body without being torn apart. Frankie asks incredulous if this means that every depiction of the crucifixion is wrong, to which Kiernan responds that it is not, "just inaccurate".

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* DatedHistory: Discussed in-universe. Frankie brings up the fact that she has wounds on her wrists rather than her palms as proof that she doesn't have stigmata, but Kiernan says that scientific evidence supports that Roman crucifixion actually nailed the wrists, because the palms aren't strong enough to hold up a body without being torn apart. Frankie asks incredulous if this means that every depiction of the crucifixion Crucifixion is wrong, to which Kiernan responds that it is not, "just "not, just inaccurate".

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* DatedHistory: Discussed in-universe. Frankie brings up the fact that she has wounds on her wrists rather than her palms as proof that she doesn't have stigmata, but Kiernan says that scientific evidence supports that Roman crucifixion actually nailed the wrists, because the palms aren't strong enough to hold up a body without being torn apart. Frankie asks incredulous if this means that every depiction of the crucifixion is wrong, to which Kiernan responds that it is not, "just inaccurate".



* TearsOfBlood:
** The statue Father Kiernan investigates began crying human blood at the death of the church's beloved priest.
** [[spoiler: Frankie later cries the same tears]].

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* TearsOfBlood:
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TearsOfBlood: The statue Father Kiernan investigates began crying human blood at the death of the church's beloved priest.
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priest. [[spoiler: Frankie later cries the same tears]].
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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXSairYHJw Identify]], written by Mike Garson and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins's vocalist Billy Corgan (who also composed the score alongside Mike), and sung by Music/NatalieImbruglia.

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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXSairYHJw Identify]], "Identify"]], written by Mike Garson and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins's vocalist Billy Corgan (who also composed the score alongside Mike), and sung by Music/NatalieImbruglia.
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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXSairYHJw Identify]], written by Mike Garson and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins's vocalist Billy Corgan (who also composed the score alongside Mike), and sung by Natalie Imbruglia.

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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXSairYHJw Identify]], written by Mike Garson and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins's vocalist Billy Corgan (who also composed the score alongside Mike), and sung by Natalie Imbruglia.Music/NatalieImbruglia.

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* AnimalMotifs: Doves.

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* SexyPriest: Kiernan.
* TearsOfBlood: The statue Father Kiernan investigates began crying human blood at the death of the church's beloved priest.

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The statue Father Kiernan investigates began crying human blood at the death of the church's beloved priest.
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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Frankie's boyfriend Stephen mainly exists to mention that she is heterosexual. Frankie and Stephen have a sex scene early in the film, and after that he is barely mentioned. Frankie's best friend Donna, meanwhile, has a lot more scenes with Frankie, is shown to care about her well-being, and even shares Frankie's bed after bringing her back from the hospital. But Frankie has a boyfriend, SO THEY'RE NOT LESBIANS, RIGHT?
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* BlackBestFriend: Donna Chadway
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* CassandraTruth: When doctors are looking at her wounds after the stigmata appears, they phrase the descriptions as if Frankie "did" them. When Frankie questions why, the doctors tell her that the wounds are "obviously" self-inflicted. Despite Frankie protesting they appeared on their own and she has no reason to harm herself, it's clear they don't believe her.

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion
-->'''Creator/RogerEbert:''' "Stigmata" does not know, or care, about the theology involved, and thus becomes peculiarly heretical by confusing the effects of being possessed by Jesus and by Beelzebub.
** It also features a desperate conspiracy by the Catholic Church to cover up the existence of the newly-rediscovered Gospel of Thomas, which would apparently destroy the entire institution of religion if discovered. However, it was actually discovered in 1945, and published (and translated) shortly after with no opposition whatsoever.

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion
-->'''Creator/RogerEbert:''' "Stigmata" does not know, or care, about the theology involved, and thus becomes peculiarly heretical by confusing the effects of being possessed by Jesus and by Beelzebub.
** It also
ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film features a desperate conspiracy by the Catholic Church to cover up the existence of the newly-rediscovered Gospel of Thomas, which would apparently destroy the entire institution of religion if discovered. However, it published. In real life, the Gospel was actually discovered in 1945, 1945 and published (and translated) shortly after with no opposition whatsoever. whatsoever, as the Church is quite accustomed to new findings of apocrypha and is usually rather indifferent to them. To show how little power those gospels actually have in the modern world, there is already a variety of ancient texts on public domain that [[GodIsEvil call God the Devil]] and [[SatanIsGood the Devil God]], among other interesting doctrines, and none of them has really affected the Church's prosperity - all they need to do in those cases is to call it non-canonical.
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* HotForPreacher: Kiernan is propositioned by several priests on his way to work. They are not phased at all when he shows them his priestly collar, offering him, "The Vatican discount!", heavily implying that he would not be the first priest that they'd serviced.

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* HotForPreacher: Kiernan is propositioned by several priests prostitutes on his way to work. They are not phased at all when he shows them his priestly collar, offering him, "The Vatican discount!", heavily implying that he would not be the first priest that they'd serviced.

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