This is super facinating to me.

[queenhalloween]

Incorruptable Saints

Throughout the years the Roman Catholic Church has found the bodies of some of their saints to be incorrupt. When this happens, the body is often put on display (quite often they are put inside a Church altar with a glass front). This is a list of the most famous incorrupt saints:

Comments

[ennev]

PhU(|< !!!!! 1600 and still look like this? untempered????

[queenhalloween]

Thats the story.
Personally? I am skeptical. It looks too wax like..and I dont mean the decompostion type of wax. I mean parafin. :)

[astrixas]

The church has always done a type of embalming on saints they plan to beautify. They also cover the faces with wax, it is almost like a death mask, and will go into to caskets every couple of years and touch up the wax and use paint to give them more of a sleeping look.

it is not a miracle they look this way but a carefully orchestrated ruse, and has been occuring since the church was created.

[queenhalloween]

I knew about the waxing. However I did not know they performed maintenance every couple of years. Interesting.

[queenhalloween]

I still think Silvan is an effigy. Infact I'm about 99.9% positive.

[halomia]

Still as interesting as you ever were. :)

Hello friend, how are you doing?

[queenhalloween]

I am doing well! How are you doing?