The print of the nails

While the saint was praying, an evil spirit appeared to him in "glittering radiance" and claiming to be Christ. After a moment of silence, St. Martin replied: "Jesus, the Lord, announced not that He should come in glittering clothing, and radiant with a diadem. I will not believe that Christ is come, save in that state and form in which He suffered, save with the show of the wounds of the Cross." At those words the evil spirit vanished like smoke. 

-- Ask for the print of the nails | Commonweal Magazine

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The application of this vision to Martins age is obvious; I suppose it means in this day, that Christ comes not in pride of intellect, or reputation for philosophy. These are the glittering robes in which Satan is now arraying. Many spirits are abroad, more are issuing from the pit; the credentials which they display are the precious gifts of mind, beauty, richness, depth, originality. Christians, look hard at them with Martin in silence, and ask them for the print of the nails.

-- Bl. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Historical Sketches, II, 205-206