Imperfect crucifix

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Not sure which forum to post this in. I have a crucifix that we bought from a shop at the local renasaince fair several years ago. I just recently realized that the wound is on the wrong side of the chest. Maybe this shouldn’t bother me, but it is. Everytime I look at it that’s all I see. I can’t help but wonder if this was done purposely or by accident. Does anyone know if this effects it since it is not accurate?
 
Rosepetal7 said:
Not sure which forum to post this in. I have a crucifix that we bought from a shop at the local renasaince fair several years ago. I just recently realized that the wound is on the wrong side of the chest. Maybe this shouldn’t bother me, but it is. Everytime I look at it that’s all I see. I can’t help but wonder if this was done purposely or by accident. Does anyone know if this effects it since it is not accurate?
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Nowhere in Scipture does it indicate on which side our Lord was pierced by the lance. 🙂
 
Maybe you could think of it as a “mirror” (i.e if you had the wound it would be on that side if you looked into a mirror, I think?). Maybe a meditation regarding conforming ourselves to Christ?

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I have a crucifix that we bought from a shop at the local renasaince fair several years ago. I just recently realized that the wound is on the wrong side of the chest.
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what is the correct side? don’t think I have ever seen any source for this
 
I’ve never seen a crucifix, other then the one I have, with the wound on the left side of Christ. I just assumed that it was “wrong”. I also didn’t realize that a specicific side isn’t mentioned anywhere in scripture…
After reading the replies I do feel better about it
 
I am curious to see if anyone else has a crucifix with the wound on the left side
 
His left side or your left side as you look at it?

Traditionally I think the lance is imagined as having pierced Jesus’ heart, though John only said his side was pierced. If it went into his heart then I would imagine it was Jesus’ left side, since the heart is on the left side.

The story recalls God taking the rib from Adam, but again there is no mention of which side the rib was taken from.
 
The reason Christ’s side was pierced was to ascertain that he had already died. So, the soldier was aiming for the arotic sac around the heart not the heart itself. The presence of both blood and water showed that his heart had stopped beating. The wound could have been administered from either side, but a spear pulled out of a body will spray blood on the spear holder if he is directly below the heart. Therefore, he may have thrust it in from the right side to prevent being sprayed, which is why the blood and water flowed into of spraying. Gruesome, I know, but a fact that may help understand which side the wound was on.
 
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I am curious to see if anyone else has a crucifix with the wound on the left side
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I had one once and I thought it looked weird- just didn’t look right. I always see the wound on Christ’s right side.
 
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The reason Christ’s side was pierced was to ascertain that he had already died. So, the soldier was aiming for the arotic sac around the heart not the heart itself. The presence of both blood and water showed that his heart had stopped beating. The wound could have been administered from either side, but a spear pulled out of a body will spray blood on the spear holder if he is directly below the heart. Therefore, he may have thrust it in from the right side to prevent being sprayed, which is why the blood and water flowed into of spraying. Gruesome, I know, but a fact that may help understand which side the wound was on.
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Sometimes my fingers type words they often type instead of the word I mean. 😊 I meant to write: “which is why the blood and water flowed **instead **of spraying”, as recorded by St. John.
 
I think I might have found our answer in presentation today for catechists on the Mass. One of the changes in the institution narrative is that Christ poured out his blood (old word was “shed”) and one of the biblical references is Ezekiel 47, the water flowing out of the temple (a type for the sacrifice of Christ specifically as he is pierced, and blood and water flow out). Some translations (JB for one) say “the water flowed from under the right side of the Temple…” that is a stretch but may be why the right side of Christ is often depicted as that being pierced on the right side. I have also seen medical arguments that piercing on the left side would produce only blood, while on the right side of the pericardia blood and water would flow from the body of a person recently asphyxiated by crucifixion. Only John mentions the piercing and the translations I have available do not state, right or left side, nor are the notes helpful. let us wait for the experts
 
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