Saint Christina von Hamm

Christina of Hamm (15th century; died 15th or 16th century) was a mystic and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. Information regarding Christina’s life is limited to a brief account by Werner Rolevinck in his 1470s universal history, Fasciculus temporum. According to this, a servant girl (puella) whom Rolevinck called Stine was in Hamm in 1464. As a "newly converted" (noviter conversa) woman, she reportedly bore the five wounds of Christ there. These stigmata, the report states, were visible for 15 weeks until Corpus Christi. Christina showed them to twelve witnesses and predicted that the marks would disappear within two hours, which reportedly occurred. No further information has survived. Rolevinck’s narrative was included in the 16th century by Gerhard Kleinsorgen in his Chronicon sive Historia Westphaliae Ecclesiastica, which was not published until 1780. Aegidius Gelenius followed both in his 1645 work De admiranda Sacra, published by Jost Kalckhoven, and listed her feast day as June 23. Today, her feast day is June 22, which was likely adopted from Christina of Stommeln and transferred to her. Regarding the stigmata, Peter Dinzelbacher raises the question of whether it was a case of fraud.