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What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explainsPeople pray over the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at the abbey of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, near Gower, Mo., in April 2023.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Catholic tradition offers occasional examples of holy men and women whose bodies, exhumed some years after death, remained completely or partially untouched by the natural...

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