I thought from the Shroud of Turin and other sources, it’s believed Christ’s wounds were in his wrists. Then why, when someone gets the stigmata, are the wounds in the palms?
It has only been fairly recently in Church history that Christ’s hand wounds are believed to have been in his wrists and not his palms. For many centuries, popular belief had it that they were in the palms. Now it is known that in ancient times the wrist was considered part of the hand and not part of the arm. The stigmata may be placed by God in someone’s palms because that was where most people expected (and continue to expect) it should be.
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