So how do you explain the body of Saint Bernadette whose body was exhumed 30 years after her death and remained "without the slightest taint of corruption". and yes while her body is covered in wax that is because the hands had to be shipped to the vatican and the nose broke by accident. and please do read the reports on wikipedia or wherever before replying.
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A question, @JacobCorneluis, Didn't you ask a similar question in another post about other "incorrupt" bodies? Do you believe that this "incorrupt" body will be for anything different from the others? Are you looking for a miracle? What? It's curiosity.
The latter. do you know how much money Russia spends on preserving Lenin and yet he is slowly decaying. but like I said read the wiki article before giving an response.
@JacobCorneluis: Already they've given the answers in the other post that you put on exactly the same subject. Do you think the answers they gave you denying the miracles you put in your other post aren't applicable to this? Are you looking for a miracle, or what? Because you didn't answer me.
wikipedia : "The Church exhumed the corpse a second time on 3 April 1919. A doctor who examined the body noted, "The body is practically mummified, covered with patches of mildew and quite a notable layer of salts, which appear to be calcium salts. ... The skin has disappeared in some places, but it is still present on most parts of the body."
In 1925, the church exhumed the body for a third time. They took relics, which were sent to Rome. A precise imprint of the face was molded so that the firm of Pierre Imans in Paris could make a wax mask based on the imprints and on some genuine photos to be placed on her body. This was common practice for relics in France as it was feared that the blackish tinge to the face and the sunken eyes and nose would make an unpleasant impression on the public."
OK! So what?
A doctor that did an autopsy said"I would have liked to open the left side of the thorax to take the ribs as relics and then remove the heart which I am certain must have survived. However, as the trunk was slightly supported on the left arm, it would have been rather difficult to try and get at the heart without doing too much noticeable damage. As the Mother Superior had expressed a desire for the Saint's heart to be kept together with the whole body, and as Monsignor the Bishop did not insist, I gave up the idea of opening the left-hand side of the thorax and contented myself with removing the two right ribs which were more accessible. ... What struck me during this examination, of course, was the state of perfect preservation of the skeleton, the fibrous tissues of the muscles (still supple and firm), of the ligaments, and of the skin, and above all the totally unexpected state of the liver after 46 years. One would have thought that this organ, which is basically soft and inclined to crumble, would have decomposed very rapidly or would have hardened to a chalky consistency. Yet, when it was cut it was soft and almost normal in consistency. I pointed this out to those present, remarking that this did not seem to be a natural phenomenon." I have to wonder are there any cases of none saints body being like this?
Catholics are a barbarous lot. Digging up corpses and cutting off body parts as souvenirs. Why are we to be impressed?
According to a Catholic source.
(in 1909)When the habits had been removed and the veil lifted from the head, the whole of the shrivelled body could be seen, rigid and taut in every limb...The stomach had caved in and was taut like the rest of the body...In the few hours in which it had been exposed to the air the body had started turning black.
(1919)The skin has disappeared in some places, but it is still present on most parts of the body.
(1925)the skeleton is complete, the muscles have atrophied, but are well preserved; only the skin, which has shrivelled, seems to have suffered from the effects of the damp in the coffin...At this point a precise imprint of the face was moulded so that the firm of Pierre Imans in Paris could make a light wax mask based on the imprints and on some genuine photos. It was feared that, although the body was mummified, the blackish tinge to the face and the sunken eyes and nose would make an unpleasant impression on the public....Imprints of the hands were also taken for the same reasons.
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Well it sure sounds like there was some "corruption" to me.
Well that settles it then. I got most of my sources from a book called the incorruptables which seems to be in contradiction to this.
In the U.S. it is illegal to mutilate a corpse. I suppose the Catholics consider themselves above that standard of decency.
Why is it that catholics, who consider themselves to be supremely spiritual, are so obsessed with material things like bodies and relics? I can understand materialist communists wanting to preseve Lenin and Mao, but why are catholics always messing with blood and bones? It's quite disgusting.
Maybe catholics are secretly necromancers?
I read the article. I can cherrypick a bunch of things but let's look at one. It mentions finding salts all over the body. There are a number of ways to preserve and/or mummify a body without the stereotypical wrappings. Natron Salts were used to dry out bodies and preserve them since Ancient Egyptian times. Since then, many cultures have had time to practice and improve the process. This ain't a miracle. Sorry.
JacobCorneluis, when I was a boy, my father had to occassionally assure me that there was nothing lurking in my closet. I feel like you are similarly in need of assurance on occassion. I strongly suggest that you study what we know about the physical world and the mathematics of statistical probabilities. I think you keep attributing natural events to an unseen actor or force due to a lack of awareness of how things happen and the probability of such events. Otherwise you'll continue to call out for answers to your suspicions about the supernatural the way I called out for someone to check my closet. Free your mind, Jacob.