Does incorruptible is really miracle?

[JerryZ]

One very interesting aspect of these manifestations of Sainthood are sometimes overlooked by us laypeople.

Let’s take Padre Pio, when he was alive and manifested the stigmatas they would bleed profusely.

Some umbelievers and even some Catholics accused him of self inflicting them.
But let’s use some of what we know of the scientific method.
What happens when you have blood especially human blood spilled?
Anyone that has experienced it directly knows that it has a very distict smell.
In hospitals they go to great lenghts to eliminate it and I think everybody knows what they smell like due mostly to the strong cleaners and antiseptics.
Also if you have a wound open for a long time it is very possible to have it become infected and fester. Adding yet another layer of unpleasant odors coming out of that person.

Back to Padre Pio, all the people that met him recall that he had a sweet smell like of roses. No Foul odors coming from him.
This from a monk that lived when running water was a luxury that very few people had.

And this smell apparently is a marker for all the manifestations of Sainthood.
It was said of St. Bernadette, St. Francis and many more.
Maybe the Rose was the favorite flower of or Lord’s mother, who knows.

Ah I just remembered there is a rose bush at the place where St. Francis spent some time that has no thorns.
Tradition has it that the Saint being tormented by fleshly desires threw himself on the bush to placate them (self mortification). But the bush dropped all it’s thorns instantly.
What is interesting though is that if you take a cutting with you and plant it in your house
the “new” rose bush will have thorns. Funny no?

Peace

 

[ready]

Lenin’s body was preserved by a taxidermy, no different than a trophy deer head, and his body has to be kept in a controlled environment.

Not so the incorruptible saints.

Jim

I agree. It is science that has kept Lenin’s body the way it is. The other person I spoke of whose body was treated with a special solution upon his death only appears to be incorrupt because he was blessed with a holy life on earth, when his incorruption is actually only due to an injection of a special solution (a breakthrough of science at the time) concocted by brilliant scientists – this is not the case for true Saints who are kept incorrupt not by artificial means, but by means of their holy bodies and by the grace of God.