Beautiful. Where is this?
Is there a reason for the wounds on His kneecaps? The Passion accounts explicitly say that instead of breaking His knees, which was customary, they pierced His side. Yet this shows both? =/
I don't think it's that the knees were broken, they are bleeding from the three falls that He endured.
"Cristo Deposto" painted in 2010 by Rolando di Gaetani (Italian artist born in 1942).
Beautiful. Where is this?
ReplyDeleteIs there a reason for the wounds on His kneecaps? The Passion accounts explicitly say that instead of breaking His knees, which was customary, they pierced His side. Yet this shows both? =/
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's that the knees were broken, they are bleeding from the three falls that He endured.
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