five sacred wounds

Thereafter the Confraternity of the Five Sacred Wounds of Our Lord has been instrumental in the celebration of the festival with pomp and piety.

In Christian tradition, the Five Holy Wounds or Five Sacred Wounds are the five piercing wounds suffered during the crucifixion of Jesus.

Though with the conferment of the fragment of the True Cross, the feast attained a certain dignity, it was only after the inauguration of the Confraternity of the Five Sacred Wounds of Our Lord, that the festival won recognition as a major festival.