Padre Pio's body to be exhumed, venerated

Catholic World News ^ | 1/7/07 | staff

[Soliton]

The body of Padre Pio will be exhumed and exposed for public veneration during the coming year, the local archbishop has announced.

[Clemenza]

As a nonbeliever, I still think the paganistic ritual described is kinda cool.

[Soliton]

It is a bit creepy.

[Rome2000]

Cool!

[Bosco]

I predict that there will be something “miraculous” reported about Padre Pio’s body once exhumed.

[max americana]

Most’ saints when exhumed are reported to be in the same condition as they were buried centuries before. So this could happen as well.

The dude had bleeding palms (STIGMATA) for more than 50 yrs. Unreal.

[STARWISE]

There are many breathtaking, unexplainable miracles .. as in St. Bernadette.

The Incorruptible
Saint Bernadette Soubirous... 

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January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879

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The Visionary of Lourdes...

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Her body was exhumed in September 1909, after over 30 years buried,
and was found to be incorrupt. This is how she looks today.
You can see her in the Chapel of Saint Bernadette in Nevers, France.

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There are many other incorruptible Saints which can be seen today.
You can read about some of them in a book titled,
'The Incorruptibles' by Joan Carroll Cruz.

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Bob Stanley, August 16, 1998

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[Salvation]

Not paganistic at all.

Are you familiar with the incorruptibles?

[STARWISE]

PING~!

[Salvation]

Not most saints. Some saints.

[Salvation]

Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Relics and the Incorruptibles

[Soliton]

If their bodies were incorruptable, they would still be alive. How come we don’t have any thousand year-old saints? There sure would be a lot more believers.

[P-Marlowe]

There are many breathtaking, unexplainable miracles ..

I didn't know that paraffin was a miraculous substance.

[mountainbunny]

There are plenty from the very early days of the Church, known by name.
Here’s one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp
He’s my favorite, next to Saint Augustine, who is another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

[Soliton]

Augustine was a genius, but I guess not incorruptable. I always took that ashes to ashes, dust to dust thing pretty seriously.

[STARWISE]

Those that are incorruptible after death simply are,
by any unscientific definition. Hence, they are miracles
and mysteries that defy physical science.

I have no answer to your illogical question.

“Faith can move mountains.”

http://tinyurl.com/yp2gym

[STARWISE]

There are so many miracles attributed to
the intervention of the blessed Padre Pio,
that would not surprise me.

[Salvation]

Letter 33 - Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, 16 November 1914.

Padre Pio and the Mother Co-redemptrix(CATHOLIC CAUCUS)

Saint Padre Pio letters #29Correspondence with Raffaelina Cerase

Message, St. Padre Pio During Mass

Padre Pio and the Guardian Angel

Spiritual Counsels from Saint Padre Pio

What Does It Means To Be Canonized.(Padre Pio example)

Feast of St. Pio this FRIDAY! (Padre Pio - Pray for Texas!)

Padre Pio's Love for the Blessed Mother

St. Padre Pio

Padre Pio's Shrine, as the Architect Sees It - Renzo Piano Talks about Church, San Giovanni Rotondo

Padre Pio Aid Says Saint Accepted New Mass

Padre Pio: on Spirituality, Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Missae

Remarkable Transformation: Padre Pio

Cardinal Schotte (Head of the Synod of Bishops) and his view on Dallas; Rose petals for Padre Pio

Saint Padre Pio's Body Not Found in His Tomb?

Padre Pio Now A Saint - Wrestled With Devil, Predicted Future

Padre Pio Wrestled with Devil, Predicted Future

Pope Bestows Sainthood on Padre Pio

PADRE PIO DA PIETRELCINA

Padre Pio to be Canonized This June

His Friends Remember Padre Pio

[Deo volente]

If their bodies were incorruptable, they would still be alive.


That's a non sequitur, my friend. Try again.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It didn’t prevent the body of ELISHA from decaying.

2Ki 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

And it was written that the body of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi did not decay for quite a while.