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 Someone mentioned Therese Neumann as a stigmatic, this morning.  I never heard of her.  Google told me she was a German lady living in Bavaria during WWII. She had the stigma.  I was looking at her critics.  One of them said she was inedia.  I didn't know what that was.  Google said,  

     inedia is a person who believes that it is possible, through meditation
     to reach a level of consciousness where one can obtain all sustenance
     from the air or sunlight.

That's a criticism?  St. Catherine of Siena only lived on Eucharistic hosts.  So what?  

It turns out that that's all Therese Neumann lived on.  Both St. Catherine and Therese said food made them vomit.  They could only stomach the Eucharist. The following information comes from a magazine called Michael.

Though the war had destroyed a good portion of the town, the people of Konnersreuth had somehow survived the many bombings. They were earnestly praying, entreating Heaven for an end to the war. So, when it happened that the Americans finally did arrive, the entire town came out to cheer and welcome them. This was when Arthur met Therese Neumann, the mystic he had heard so much about. He recognized who she was by the large square nail wounds in the palms of each of her hands. Therese was a rather shy person but very amiable. Art knew some German and was able to make himself understood and she talked with him for some time. He showed her a picture of his family and Therese told him that he should not worry, that he would return home safe to them. She also invited him to come back to visit her.

The article goes on to say that the author visited her and her pastor many times and even witnessed her go through the passion of Christ.  Therese died in 1962 and the church has not declared her a saint.  She is referred to as "a servant of God," the first step towards canonization.

Here's a picture of the inedia Servant of God, Therese Neumann.