During Holy Week we meditate on the “five wounds of Christ,” but according to some revelations (St. Gertrude the Great, St. Catherine of Siena
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St. Gertrude received many supernatural experiences of Christ during her 46 years of life and was a key person in the development of devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart.
During one of these mystical visions, Christ revealed to her the number of wounds he received in total during his passion: 5,466. In the fourteenth century it was customary in southern Germany
St. Bridget of Sweden
St. Bernard of Clairvaux was told By Christ that the most painful wound He bore was His shoulder, from the heavy cross.
The final wound was in the side of Jesus' chest, where, according to the New Testament, His body was pierced by the Lance of Longinus 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). Although the Gospels do not specify on which side He was wounded, it was conventionally shown in art as being on Jesus' side, though some depictions, notably a number by Rubens, show it on the left.
The five main wounds He suffered, are symbolic of all the wounds, and special devotion to them arose very early on. St. John Assisi