[BlackVeil]

I will look up some pictures, but I believe that early frescos of St Francis of Assisi do show him with stigmata on the wrists, rather than the palms. This is unusual, and marks him out from later stigmatists.

[drstevej]

BackVeil, I have two curiosity questions for you on this topic:

[1] How do Catholic theologians explain the absence of stigmata to the 13th century and a consistent presence of stigmatics in subsequent centuries?

[2] If St. Francis does bear marks in his wrists unlike other stigmatics, why would God (whom I presume causes the marks to appear) place them in differing locations? If they duplicate the marks on Christ there should be consistency I would think.

-- drstevej

[Romulus]

Franciscan iconography consistently represents the wounds in the hands.