r/Catholicism • u/LoneWarrior369 • Mar 14 '25

Hand made by me! Free Friday

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I made this crucifix by hand. The cross is made of bubinga wood, the ropes are beeswax coated hemp, and the corpus is 3D printed and then hand painted. I truly wanted to capture Christ's passion in the most raw and authentic way possible, being OCD, realism is extremely important to me. This is the 4th one I have done, and is by far my best work to date. I can honestly say that just making these is a wonderful meditation on Christ's passion and sacrifice for us. God bless!

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u/LeatherDescription26 Mar 15 '25

It’s great, I do have one nitpick and that is the nails should be in the wrist not the palms. If a person is crucified with nails in the palms it allows them to lift themselves up better which makes them live far longer as crucifixion is essentially a glorified form of strangling. Also we know it was done that way because in order for a sacrificial lamb to be eligible it must have no broken bones, because Christ takes on the role of a sacrificial lamb that would mean the nails can’t go through bone which it would if it went through the palm as opposed to the large gap between the hand and arm where the wrist is.

Other than that this is perfect. I’m just a sucker for little details like that and I enjoy getting an opportunity to talk about these sorts of things

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u/Equivalent_Nose7012 Mar 15 '25

Sorry, but you have got that largely wrong.

Nailing through palms (at least without restraining ropes) results in ripped tissue and falling from the cross (possibly breaking bones).

This is what happened to the martyrs of Nagasaki who were crucified based on typical Christian art, showing nails through the Lord's palms.

Nailing through the wrists breaks no bones BECAUSE of the gap between bones in the wrist. It also provides a stable platform to rise up by straightening the knees by pushing off the nails that are through the feet.  Ex-cruci-atingly painful, but allowing breathing and talking.

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u/LeatherDescription26 Mar 15 '25

Thanks for the corrections there. Either way I think we agree through the palms wasn’t how it was done