The Catholic Church’s recognized stigmatics are overwhelmingly menopausal women.

Evidence

Out of the 321 people with stigmata recognized by the Catholic Church, only 47 are men; the others—including Helen of Hungary, Joan of the Cross, G. van Oosten, Osanna of Mantua, and Clare of Montefalco—are women, who are, on average, past the age of menopause. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1914

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why the menopause correlation? Beauvoir hints at hormonal/somatic dimensions but this deserves further investigation.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in embodied phenomenology and how the body mediates mystical experience — ties to Merleau-Ponty.