I’ve often wondered about this stigmata that appear on the hands. Wasn’t Jesus nailed through the wrists? Just wondering!
A semantic analysis showed that the original language used a noun that considered the hand and the wrist as one. In fact, I know a person from a third-world country who uses “hand” to mean all the way up to the shoulder, although if you pin her down she will acknowledge the modern hand ends somewhere short of that.
Nevertheless, it has been shown in modern research that the two palms can support the weight of the entire body (I think it was a National Geographic special of some kind), and if ropes are tied at the wrist in addition there is really no question at all. So I don’t think the precise anatomical location of the stigmata can be taken to disprove the miracle (especially when it already has been approved by the Church).
Some scientists have proposed that the wrist cannot support body weight, ignoring the possibility, and probability, that the wrists were tied to the cross. To the Romans, the hand would be much more symbolic.