Vatican’s secret, and deadly, project to preserve its saints

New York Post ^ | 03/22/2014 | Theresa Potenza

[Alex Murphy]

The Catholic belief of “incorruptibility” holds that if a body does not decay after death, the person is holy. It takes two miracles to become a saint; the Church once allowed a perfect corpse to count as one.

Incorruptibility is no longer a miracle, however, perhaps because so many tried to help God along. Oil and herbs were inserted into the muscle cavities of some older popes, for instance.

When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, the Vatican used a wrapping technique similar to what was believed to have been applied to Jesus. It failed miserably. Only days after his death, his nose fell off, and a Swiss Guard fainted due to the stench while he was guarding the body.

[SNIP]

In 2000, Pope John Paul II had [Pope John XXIII] exhumed to be declared “blessed,” part of the progression to sainthood. The airtight coffin had left him virtually undisturbed, and the embalming team wanted to keep it that way.

After the pope’s internal organs were removed and analyzed, the body was placed in a stainless-steel tub for several weeks in a solution of formalin and alcohol, then neutralized for several weeks.

His body then undertook a series of baths in assorted solutions for months at a time, including various mixtures of ethanol, methanol, phenol, camphor, nitrobenzene, turpentine and benzoic acid.

Finally the body was bandaged in linen cloths saturated with a solution of mercury bichloride and ethanol. Then a second team ensconced him with wax on his face and hands. The entire process took about a year.

The Church decided not to rebury Pope John XXIII, instead putting him on display for pilgrims. More than 25,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica every day, and many faithful still believe the incorrupt state of his body is a miracle.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The Incorruptibles
http://www.miraclesofthesaints.com/2010/10/incorruptibles-saints-bodies-that-are.html?m=1

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Good book on Amazon regarding the incorrupt bodies of the saints.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0895550660?pc_redir=1395736194&robot_redir=1

[redleghunter]

Hit the link from EWTN. It was a priest. The piece was a Fatima devotion.

[redleghunter]

I have to say you took that one in stride. Not bad.

[redleghunter]

I asked earlier no response from three posters. What is your rake on the dismemberment of ST. Teresa so more churches could claim relics (body parts)?

[WXRGina]

:-)

[editor-surveyor]

And the tunnel between your ears?

[editor-surveyor]

That is some truly Satanic vomit at that site.

[metmom]

It’s macabre.

[editor-surveyor]

Yes, at the very least!

[Alex Murphy]

There was an ecumenical thread earlier today on this same topic - what happened to it?

[bonfire]

Smart move!

[bonfire]

you just HAD to go there didn’t ya? Now I’ll be awake ALL night..........ackkkkkk

[bonfire]

dem bones dem bones dem DRY bones........

[roamer_1]

Built in 1776, the Skull Chapel in Czermna, Poland, was the bizarre brainchild of parish priest Wacław Tomaszek, who saw to it that the bones of 3,000 people came to line the walls of the small baroque church.

They musta been too baroque to bury them all...

[metmom]

Deception and naivety.

An organization that deliberately deceives people is NOT the body of Christ on the earth.

[metmom]

We are told in John's Gospel that Lazarus was in the grave for 4 days, at which time there would have been "a stench". However, Jesus managed to restore not only his life, but reversed the decaying process that had already taken place. I don't see God being limited in any way, do you?

Lazarus as raised from the dead. It was not a matter of a dead body that did not decay. He was brought back to life.

Not the same thing at all as what Catholicism is pushing.

[Elsie]

The Catholic belief of “incorruptibility” holds that if a body does not decay after death, the person is holy. It takes two miracles to become a saint; the Church once allowed a perfect corpse to count as one.

And ALL of this is backed up by Scripture!!!

[Elsie]

Off with his fingers!!!

[Gamecock]

Wonder what the take was from all these pilgrims wanting to take a peek at Johnny? 5 Euros a head?