The incorrupt body of St. John Vianney
Posted on 09/15/2006 7:50:37 AM PDT by murphE
St John Vianney, Patron of Parish Priests(1786-1859)[Cure of Ars]
There is an excellent book titled the "Incorruptibles" that outline several saints whose bodies are intact and on display in churches throughout Europe.
This is from memory so the actual details are fuzzy but one is a female Saint sitting in a chair with absolutely no sign of decomposition since the 13th-14th century.....skin still soft... Reportedly, on occasions her eyelids open stay that way for several days then close....
I'll find the book and look the direct reference but the topic is fascinating.
Body parts of saints have been shipped around the world by the catholic church for years.....One saints finger with a ring was sent to my kids school several years ago here in Georgia. (Catholic school of course)It was not an incorruptable though....
Fascinating subject...
Ping your lists please. Isn't this awesome?
Geez, I can't WAIT to see this. Not.
Who are you to forgive anything?
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Forgive was the wrong word. accept was closer to what I meant.
I wish the psycho, ignorant, God haters would stay away from these threads.
One of the French trad priests I know has a relic of St. John Vianney which I held. I've also seen and touched relics of St. Blaise, St. Maria Goretti, and the biggie, an actual piece of the Cross of Christ.
Why is it sick? The Church has always venerated relics of saints who were temples of the Holy Spirit during their earthly life. Their bodies were tabernacles of Christ when they partook of Christ's Body and Blood. Their relics are holy because Christ made them holy. They lived their vocation to be the image of Christ...and now they are in the presence of the Holy One.
so go away and don't accept it. your loss.
"The Holy Church encloses relics of the Saints in the altar because from the time of the Catacombs she used to offer the divine Martyr of Golgotha as close as possible to the remains of those who were martyred for Him. In the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass, all Christians, as members of His Mystical Body, are offered up by Christ and with His physical body to the Holy Trinity. Moreover, they have to continue His Bloody Sacrifice: Jesus has finished suffering in His flesh; but His mystical members in their turn should offer their sufferings to God in union with those of Christ."
You may not understand, nor necessarily appreciate these practices and beliefs, but do recognize why we do and why the Roman Church has practiced these rites for tens of centuries...
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us. 8 In all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed; we are straitened, but are not destitute; 9 We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not: 10 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.(2nd Cor. 4)
Do you find this strange, too?
Acts, Chapter 19:
11 ¶ And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12 so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
http://www.bartleby.com/108/44/19.html
God manifests His power in many ways, and uses material things, including the bodies of His saints, to show forth His Glory and Majesty.
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