the wounds of Christ describe the five wounds which Christ undergoes, are:

• holes caused by the three nails in its Crucifixion whose traces are called Stigmates (for Christ or any person having wounds with the same sites):

• with each one with its two hands (pictorially represented in the palms of the hand, but more probably placed in the wrists).
• in each one of its feet, placed one on the other on a shelf fixed on the vertical feather-grasses of the Holy Cross.
• and the wound at the side inflicted by the lance of a soldier to check his effective death on the Cross.

(In the precise case of the marks, are also considered the traces of the spines of the crown on the circumference of the head and the stripes of the whiplashes in the back).

Representations

There exist many individualized pictorial representations of these wounds in the Books of hours of the Middle Ages because they are an object of devotion and worship:

• Breviary of Good of Luxembourg, duchess of Normandy , illumination (1345) Metropolitan Museum off Art
• instruments of Passion , Hours of the marshal of Boucicaut (1477-1480) illumination Paris Museum Jacquemart-Andre
• Wounds of Christ anonymous German (~1490) National Gallery off Art (Washington DC)
• Christ child in the Sacred Heart (the Child sitting within its own adult heart transpierced and surrounded of the four marks detailed of the body) anonymous German (1475-1480)

They are visible as a whole on the body of Christ by the artistic representations of Christ in her Passion:

• Christ dead of Andrea Mantegna of which the position of Christ, lengthened, the feet towards the spectator, still make their visualization stronger. The wound at the east coast made present by the faces of Marie and Jean turned towards it.

Internal bonds

• Holy nail
• Holy Lance
• Passion of Christ

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