Stigmata/Shroud Nail Holes

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I’ve been wondering lately about the difference in the nail holes on people who have received the stigmata compared to the Shroud.

Padre Pio had the nail holes in his hands. I believe St Francis did too. The Shroud has the nail holes through the wrists.

Has anyone heard anyone address this ever
 
Well, for one thing both St Francis and St Padre Pio needed to be able to still do their work. Wounds in the wrist would make it much more difficult. Perhaps Our Lord was being thoughtful in blessing them with stigmata on the hand instead?

Or maybe, since it’s not like we’re required to believe that the Shroud of Turin is real, and carbon dating indicates a Middle-Ages date of manufacture of the cloth, it isn’t real, and Our Lord really was crucified through the hands? 🤷
 
LilyM said:
Well, for one thing both St Francis and St Padre Pio needed to be able to still do their work. Wounds in the wrist would make it much more difficult. Perhaps Our Lord was being thoughtful in blessing them with stigmata on the hand instead?

Or maybe, since it’s not like we’re required to believe that the Shroud of Turin is real, and carbon dating indicates a Middle-Ages date of manufacture of the cloth, it isn’t real, and Our Lord really was crucified through the hands? 🤷
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The Shroud a fraud? Check out this commentary by Bishop Victor Galeone:

The Holy Shroud: A Record of His Love

During a crucifixion, the hands can’t support the weight of the body. The nails have to be driven through the wrists.
 
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The Shroud a fraud? Check out this commentary by Bishop Victor Galeone:

The Holy Shroud: A Record of His Love

During a crucifixion, the hands can’t support the weight of the body. The nails have to be driven through the wrists.
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IIRC, if one’s wrists are tied to the cross as well as the hands being nailed it should be sufficient to allow the weight to be borne. Besides which, the fact that the shroud may be anatomically correct doesn’t preclude its being fraudulent.
 
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the fact that the shroud may be anatomically correct doesn’t preclude its being fraudulent.
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True, however, scientists are rethinking the carbon dating done in 1988:
A January 20, 2005 article in the scholarly, peer-reviewed scientific journal Thermochimica Acta (Volume 425, pages 189-194, by Raymond N. Rogers, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California) makes it perfectly clear: the carbon 14 dating sample cut from the Shroud in 1988 was not valid. In fact, the Shroud is much older than the carbon 14 tests suggested.
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Source: Rethinking the Shroud Objectively
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I heard a scientist who had analyzed the Shroud of Turin explain it like this… (I did have the impression he was speculating. But I don’t “question” smart people too much. lol. 😊 ).

Basically, he said that the nail wounds on the Shroud… are visible only from the BACK of the wrists. And that it is possible, that the nail entries might well have been through the hands (although, not necessarily in the direct center of the palms). But IF the nails were pounded into Our Lord’s hands, at an angle… they might have emerged (on the back of the wrists) at the point, where you see the blood.

We have to remember, that we call them “nails” (which makes you think, “oh, little nails”). But they were actually more like rail road spikes. Very long, and very sharp. And could have been long enough to have exited at the wrists.

Now, why the Stigmata of famous saints has not appeared exactly as such… only God knows.
 
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