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The skeptic in me agrees with this.That’s not quite the same thing.
At any rate, it was the concept of incorruptables, not eucharistic miracles that were questioned in this thread.
I have to agree with Hesychios, I’ve come across non-Christian accounts from time to time, in addition to the fact, which you yourself pointed out, that there are “levels” of incorruptability** leads me to believe it has more to do with the state of the body itself, and the environment in which it is buried **(both of which we know can cause such affects, embalming itself being the control of those two things to keep the body from rotting prematurely), rather than the state of the soul.
If every great saint was incorruptable I might be willing to change my mind, but so many of the greatest saints aren’t.
I venerate and love each saint that is incorruptible, and perhaps some of them truly were preserved by God in a special manner, but I think its a waste to focus on these phenomenon rather then on the holy life that the saint led. The saints point us to God, not to themselves. Focusing so much on miracles, I think, can distract us away from God. Just my two cents.