Father and Joe E484: Was the Passion Itself a Miracle?

Joe Rockey brings Father Boniface Hicks a question that's been building in his head from several different directions — Padre Pio's stigmata, the Passion of the Christ, and the brutal brevity of "he was scourged" in Scripture: was Christ's ability to endure that suffering long enough to speak his final words from the cross itself a miracle, prior to and separate from the Resurrection? Father Boniface takes that seriously, and the two end up in Lourdes, documented medical healings, Padre Pio's...