Posted on 07/06/2017 1:34:32 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
In 1644, some 43 years following her death, the body of a noblewoman was being interred in front of the sanctuary of the church when a workman accidently exhumed Germaine’s incorrupt body from under the flagstone floor. Her body looked and smelled as fresh as the day she had passed away. News spread like wildfire throughout the town. Her body was exposed in the church in the hopes of eliciting religious fervor.
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What a wonderful young lady was St. Germaine.
Reading this thing, I was wondering: Was her father deaf and blind? Was he dead? He never asked, “Why is Germaine living in the barn?”
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