The Church, however, holds the opinion that the bodies of the holy martyrs will after resurrection bear the traces of the wounds which they endured for Christ's sake,9 without defect or diminution of form or beauty, to manifest their victory and triumph, and also to manifest the great reward to which they are entitled from the Lord for their martyrdom: according to that example of the Body of the Lord, which hath in it after (His) Resurrection the traces of the wounds which he endured from the Jews, to manifest His perfect submission to the heavenly Father, and also to increase pain and punishment to the Jews from whom He endured those wounds.