Zone1 Miracle in Missouri...

[Missourian]

I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting article. I'd never heard of this tradition...

"Hundreds of pilgrims have descended on a Benedictine monastery for religious sisters in rural Missouri in recent days after news began to spread on social media last week that the recently exhumed remains of the contemplative order’s African American foundress appear to be incorrupt, four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin.

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, founded the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles — best known for their chart-topping Gregorian chant and classic Catholic hymn albums — in 1995 at the age of 70, leaving the Oblate Sisters of Providence, her community of over 50 years, to do so."

Body of Benedictine Sisters’ foundress thought to be incorrupt

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, died at age 95 on May 29, 2019.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

 

[1srelluc]

I was told by a old mortician friend that black folks don't decay like white folks do.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Many Saints are believed to be incorruptible.

Incorruptible saints

Incorruptible saints, a list and biographies of Roman Catholic Incorruptible Saints

www.roman-catholic-saints.com

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[AMart]

Even with normal embalming the body should have been mostly bones.

Expecting to find bones, the Benedictine Sisters instead unearthed a coffin with an apparently intact body, even though the body was not embalmed and the wooden coffin had a crack down the middle that let in moisture and dirt for an unknown length of time during those four years.

 

[nomadic5]

wow, that's amazing. The body wasn't embalmed? I thought all dead bodies were?!

 

[Missourian]

Who Was Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, Whose Body Is Now the Center of Attention in Missouri?

The second of five children born to Catholic parents in St. Louis on Palm Sunday, April 13, 1924, Mary Elizabeth Lancaster (she took the name Wilhelmina when she made her vows) was raised in a deeply pious home.

www.ncregister.com

 

[Missourian]

wow, that's amazing. The body wasn't embalmed? I thought all dead bodies were?!

Not in Missouri and many other states as well.

No burial vaults or liners are required nor even a casket.

 

[Missourian]

Sister Wilhelmina continues drawing visitors from all over the state

Crowds are continuing to fill Gower, Missouri to see the uncorrupted body of dead nun, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster.

www.newspressnow.com

 

[Zebra]

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Many Saints are believed to be incorruptible.

Incorruptible saints

Incorruptible saints, a list and biographies of Roman Catholic Incorruptible Saints

www.roman-catholic-saints.com

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Like Bernadette!
of Lourdes!