An approach to the wrist’s print on the Sudarium allows to notice that the hand lacks of the medium finger and the opposite thumb takes its place. The black point at the end of the thumb is probably bloodshed by the wound the finger nail made when hitting in tangent the Face of Jesus.

The only human traces that appear on the Shroud, not from Jesus’ Body, are some fingers on the sole region of the left foot, beneath the heel, that, in appearance, got bloodshed from the surface they touched, as a consequence of the burial. But the excessive angle between the fingers, whose ends almost touch their selves, tells us that the hand was pressing the foot to make it turn; and the similar size of the fingers tell us they are the forefinger and the ring finger, since the profile of the thumb appears over the heel, and on the arch, the little finger`s profile, this one, ok, in concordant angle with the ring finger, since the hand lacked of the middle finger. Therefore, it belonged to the soldier that struck Jesus and snatched the Sudarium to the Veronica.

The blood spread toward the sole of the foot through the hand while the feet were nailed, and stopped flowing to the sole as the hand separated once the feet were nailed, taking a natural flowing way through the twisted instep, that’s why this marks weren’t erased with the blood flowing during the time Jesus remained on the cross. Furthermore, they indicate the operation was held while the body was lying, not standing, since the blood wouldn’t have flown through the hand toward the feet sole at the heel’s level, if the Body had been hanging already, nailed the hands to the scaffold on the cross.

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