A question for non-catholics

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Well, from what I know Buddhist, Hindus, and others make the same claims. Yogananda for example being a famous claim from last century.
Who know? I do know that many of the ones on display wear wax masks.
 
I couldn’t find anything about Yogananda, except that his body was preserved 20 days after death. Saint Silvan had remained flawless for 1700 years.
 
I was raised Presbyterian and had no knowledge of the incorruptables until recently. I was amazed and inspired that God would choose to leave the Christians such a sign. Then I heard that they usually need touching up and that they can even require a lot of wax work. That didn’t seem very incorrupt to me. Then I found that incorruptables have been found outside of Christianity. In the end I just didn’t care whether the saints bodies were decomposing or well preserved. Seeing them as they would have looked (even though using wax work) is still a strange curiosity. St Silvan from the early church looks like he was martyred just yesterday! They are a curiosity but they do make me think.
 
I don’t think of the state of preservation of a body as being of any particular importance. It doesn’t impact my faith in the Triune God in any way. Having said that, if contemplating the body of a Saint brings someone closer to Christ who am I to argue about it?
 
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I couldn’t find anything about Yogananda, except that his body was preserved 20 days after death. Saint Silvan had remained flawless for 1700 years.
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Any sources on that one, somewhat objective would be nice.
 
Saint Silvan was a young man said to have been killed for a his faith in the year 350, and his body is on display in Dubrovnik, Croatia, replete with a fresh-looking gash on his throat said to have been the cause of death. The body appears to be perfect. It is a sculpted effigy — St. Silvan’s actual remains are said to be contained within the box below the effigy. But there is no display signage to explain this to the faithful, and many come away with photographs of what they think is the actual body. If he is incorrupt as the church claims, why display the effigy instead of the body?
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skeptoid.com/episodes/4126
Not an objective site either obviously but if this is an effigy, that would explain a lot
 
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