[CynicalBear]

First of all Peter was there with them. Second, where did that translate to mutilation and desecration of human remains? Is cannibalism of the so called saints next?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

First of all Peter was there with them.

What are you implying? I know you know that Peter didn't perform the miracle.

Second, where did that translate to mutilation and desecration of human remains?

I thought we kiss and fondle the remains?

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Look, on the one hand, there is the incorrupt body of Bernadette Soubirous:

OTOH, when St. Thomas Aquinas died...

Shortly after Thomas Aquinas died, on March 7, 1274, miracles began to occur near his body. The monks of the Cistercian abbey at Fossanova, where Thomas was buried, feared that the remains might be stolen and taken off to a Dominican resting place.

Jealous of their treasure, the Cistercians took macabre precautions. They “exhumed the corpse of Brother Thomas from its resting place, cut off the head and placed it in a hiding place in a corner of the chapel.” That way, if the corpse were taken, the head would still be theirs. His sister was given a hand, a finger of which was to take a grisly trajectory of its own.The reverent mutilations continued.

By the time the canonization process began in 1319, the corpse had been reduced to bones, from which the flesh had been boiled away. In 1396 the bones were moved to the Dominican monastery at Toulouse. The remains were relocated to the church of St. Sernin during the French Revolution, then returned to the monastery in 1974. They rest there today.

Wild and crazy story. But this isn't infallible Church dogma we're talking about. These represent the actions of imperfect yet pious, zealous Catholics of a different era.