Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus

Icon of the Crucifixion, showing all of the Five Holy Wounds (13th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai).

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).

Visitations of Jesus regarding the devotion

St. Francis of Assisi

Marie Martha Chambon

References

Alphonsus kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament in a 19th century stained glass window of Carlow Cathedral.

1. ^ "www.cpprovince.org/archives/thepassionist/chaplet-5wounds.php". http://www.cpprovince.org/archives/thepassionist/chaplet-5wounds.php. 
2. ^ "www.catholictradition.org/Passion/little-chaplet.htm". http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/little-chaplet.htm. 
3. ^ St. Alphonsus Liguori, by Rev. D.F. Miller & Rev. L.X. Auben, January 2009, page 176.
4. ^ "www.newadvent.org/cathen/12683a.htm". http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12683a.htm. 
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ 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.

External links

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See also

Part of a series of articles on Roman Catholic Devotions to Christ

Devotions Holy Face Sacred Heart Divine Mercy Eucharistic adoration Holy Name Holy Hour Acts of Reparation Holy Wounds Rosary of Holy Wounds Stations of the Cross Precious Blood Infant of Prague Prayers to Jesus Anima Christi • Shoulder Wound • Morning offering • Sacred Heart prayer • Sacred Heart Consecration • You are Christ • Vianney's prayer • Perboyre's prayer • Montfort's prayer • Crucifix prayer

• Holy Wounds
• Chaplet of Divine Mercy
• Acts of Reparation
• Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
• Redemptorist Communications Ireland
• mysticism