Are you skeptical about incorrupt bodies of saints?

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Many of the bodies of saints called incorrupt look very corrupt to me. It seems we have mummies of saints. What do we know/think about these bodies?
 
The point is that some of them have no compleatly disenegrated like many other bodies.
Additionally, some are still compleatly life life and exude oil/fragrance.
Additionally, some are still pliable many years after death, and some even change position.
 
The most extraordinary of the incorruptables is St. Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde) Soubirous.

I have read several accounts of her life. They all describe how her body was found incorrupt against all odds. She can still be seen in her crystal reliquary, looking like she is merely sleeping.
 
Why? they are a manifest witness to the truth of the Catholic religion.
 
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Many of the bodies of saints called incorrupt look very corrupt to me. It seems we have mummies of saints. What do we know/think about these bodies?
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You are correct that some of the incorruptables eventually corrupted. They were called that because the did not decay in the same way as most people do.

I know that some people point to non-saintly people who were supposedly also incorrupt. I don’t personally care if their state of incorruption is an indicator of personal sanctity. What is important to me is that this happens because God wills it and He wants us to learn from it.
 
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Isn’t she a beauty?!
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Indeed, Bernadette is a beauty in her incorrupt state, and as a saint–one that is under appreciated, I fear. She and Our Lady of Lourdes were instrumental in my becoming Catholic, so I have a special devotion for Bernadette and Our Lady under this title.

Bernadette’s incorrupt body was one of the things that impressed me enough to open my heart and mind to the claims of the Church, and I am a skeptical person by nature.
 
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Bernadette’s incorrupt body was one of the things that impressed me enough to open my heart and mind to the claims of the Church, and I am a skeptical person by nature.
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I know two women on another board I am on that delved into the Catholic faith because of the book, “The Incorruptibles”. They said the miraculous preservation of some of our saints, and the heroic virtues these saints possessed on earth, were intrumental in their conversion. God is so Good giving us these little treasures.
 
Della said:
Indeed, Bernadette is a beauty in her incorrupt state, and as a saint–one that is under appreciated, I fear. She and Our Lady of Lourdes were instrumental in my becoming Catholic, so I have a special devotion for Bernadette and Our Lady under this title.

Bernadette’s incorrupt body was one of the things that impressed me enough to open my heart and mind to the claims of the Church, and I am a skeptical person by nature.
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Deo Gratias! Isn’t His mercy amazing. Welcome to the Fold.:hug1:
 
Joan Carol Cruz has written some amazing books, including “The Incorruptables”.

Worth buying all of them and adding them to your library.
 
No.

I have the most beautiful photos of St Bernadette, St Vincent De Paul and St John Vianney.

I truly believe that it is a sign from God.
 
What I don’t understand is this: If there is are sunken eyes and a sunken nose, doesn’t that make the body corrupt?
 
I spend zero time thinking or worrying about this, unless it arises on the forum like this. I am an old lady and don’t have much time left to pray, do penance and acts of charity, so I leave such fruitless speculation to those who have more leisure than I do.
 
Sometimes the incorrupt state is a miracle, sometimes it’s a natural process. While it’s nice to have such signs from God, it’s not the focal point of our religion. Not all saints are incorrupt; not all incorrupt bodies are saints.
 
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