[Orbiter]

I don't get how stigmata appears in the center of the palm, since crucifiction, necessarily, involved piercing the wrist. I musta missed something.

[BunnySlippers]

I don't get how stigmata appears in the center of the palm, since crucifiction, necessarily, involved piercing the wrist. I musta missed something.

Where Christ was nailed to the cross.

[Cicero]

I've read the "scientific" theories you may be thinking of, which say that the nails must have been through the wrists not the palms to support Christ's weight on the cross, but that is really speculative. How many times have scientists said, "It must have been this way, or that way" -- and then they were proved wrong? We don't really know for sure how crucifixions were performed generally, let alone in that particular instance.

[sfousa]

I don't get how stigmata appears in the center of the palm, since crucifiction, necessarily, involved piercing the wrist. I musta missed something.

I have a copy of Ruffin's book with me right now. On page 150 (end of Chapter 12) it says:

When asked why his wounds were in the center of his hands and not in the wrists...Padre Pio replied, "Oh it would be too much to have them exactly as they were in the case of Christ."