Stigmata are bleeding wounds that appear spontaneously and inexplicably in a person´s hands (sometimes also in their feet and side), and which correspond to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. The first stigmatic priest in the history of the Roman Catholic Church was Padre Pio (1887-1968), who spent much of his priesthood as a Capuchin priest at Our Lady of Grace Friary in San Giovanni Rotondo, near Foggia, Italy. He gained the five classic stigmata on Friday 20 September 1918, which he retained for the rest of his life, i.e. over 50 years, making him the world´s longest recorded stigmatic. His stigmata wept a large cupful of blood every day, caused him great physical pain, and never healed, but never became infected either.