Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus
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The Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus[1][2] is a devotional prayer written in 1761[3] by St. Alphonsus Liguori, a devotional writer and founder of the Redemptorist Fathers religious community in Naples, Italy.[4]
St. Alphonsus wrote the devotional as a meditation on the five piercing wounds that Christ suffered during his crucifixion.
- Two of the wounds were through either his hands or his wrists, where nails were inserted to fix Jesus to the cross-beam of the cross on which he was crucified.
- Two were through the feet where the nail(s)[5] passed through both to the vertical beam.[6]
- The final wound was in the side of Jesus' chest, where, according to the New Testament, his body was pierced by a lance in order to be sure that he was dead. The Gospel of John states that blood and water poured out of this wound (John 19:34).
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[edit] Visitations of Jesus regarding the devotion
[edit] References
- ^ "www.cpprovince.org/archives/thepassionist/chaplet-5wounds.php". http://www.cpprovince.org/archives/thepassionist/chaplet-5wounds.php.
- ^ "www.catholictradition.org/Passion/little-chaplet.htm". http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/little-chaplet.htm.
- ^ St. Alphonsus Liguori, by Rev. D.F. Miller & Rev. L.X. Auben, January 2009, page 176.
- ^ "www.newadvent.org/cathen/12683a.htm". http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12683a.htm.
- ^ In Eastern Christianity, the crucifixion is traditionally depicted with Jesus' feet side by side, and a separate nail for each; in Western Christianity, the crucifix usually shows the two feet placed one above the other, and both pierced by a single nail.
- ^ Of all the thousands crucified by the Romans, skeletal remains of only one have so far been discovered by archeologists, and that one showed a nail piercing through the heel.
