https://yoganandasite.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/i-will-receive-the-man-of-god-from-india-therese-neumann-yogananda-ay-bros-bhaktananda-anandamoy/Paramahansa Yogananda’s experiences with Theresa Neumann
We beamed in silent communion, each knowing the other to be a lover of God. …“Don’t you eat anything?” ….
“I live by God’s light.”
How simple her reply, how Einsteinian!
“I see you realize that energy flows to your body from the ether, sun, and air.”
A swift smile broke over her face. “I am so happy to know you understand how I live.” ….
As my gaze fell on her strong, graceful hands, Therese showed me a square, freshly healed wound on the back of each hand. …
The saint told me something of her weekly trances. “As a helpless onlooker, I observe the whole Passion of Christ.” Each week, from Thursday midnight until Friday afternoon at one o’clock, her wounds open and bleed; she loses ten pounds of her ordinary 121-pound weight. Suffering intensely in her sympathetic love, Therese yet looks forward joyously to these weekly visions of her Lord.
I realized at once that her strange life is intended by God to reassure all Christians of the historical authenticity of Jesus’ life and crucifixion as recorded in the New Testament, and to display dramatically the ever living bond between the Galilean Master and his devotees. ….
Her brother Ferdinand…explained that Therese has the power, through prayer, of working out on her own body the ailments of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, “Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist”, excerpts
