An excellent section on stigmata, with a detailedlist of stigmatics since history's first recordedstigmatic, St. Francis of Assisi. Like most booksfrom the publisher Prometheus Books, this one isskeptical in outlook, but well documented,citing the work of Hansel, Randi, and other skeptics.It also describes Nickell's own experience investigating the miraculous blood of St. Januarius.

A well written account of the life and times of the German Emperor who ruled the Christian world from Sicily, and was a contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi.