Is Don Bosco incorrupt or just wax?

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I had the pleasure of seeing Don Bosco in Turin, Italy and found him looking very “waxy”. I realize it is common to put wax on incorrupt saints, but then I started hearing stories about how his remains are under the fake wax body. Anybody know anything of this?
 
aball1035 said:
I had the pleasure of seeing Don Bosco in Turin, Italy and found him looking very “waxy”. I realize it is common to put wax on incorrupt saints, but then I started hearing stories about how his remains are under the fake wax body. Anybody know anything of this?
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Wax body? Or wax covering over a human body?
 
(Not a new topic but I just saw it…)

Apparently, when Don Bosco’s remains were unearthed in 1934, they were found to be incorrupt. At that time, they were displayed and many thousands viewed them.

After that viewing, his body was burried beneath the glass display where he had been viewed and what is now seen is actually a mold which contains a relic of the saint.

This is not a secret or some deception by the way. It is sometimes misunderstood, especially when one catches a glimpse on the web or views something without a tour guide or book to provide the details.

I’m no expert, just happened to do some reading recently.

Hope that helps.

God bless.
 
Skipper350 said:
(Not a new topic but I just saw it…)

Apparently, when Don Bosco’s remains were unearthed in 1934, they were found to be incorrupt. At that time, they were displayed and many thousands viewed them.

After that viewing, his body was burried beneath the glass display where he had been viewed and what is now seen is actually a mold which contains a relic of the saint.

This is not a secret or some deception by the way. It is sometimes misunderstood, especially when one catches a glimpse on the web or views something without a tour guide or book to provide the details.

I’m no expert, just happened to do some reading recently.

Hope that helps.

God bless.
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Skipper, could you provide a reference? Thanks!
 
aball1035 said:
Wax body. Like the whole thing. Why would they put any wax on if it’s incorrupt anyways?
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Sorry to resuscitate an old topic, but incorrupt bodies may indeed have stuff put on them to keep air contaminants from reacting with the skin; that was done to Saint John Neumann.

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Mmm, there tends to be a problem with skin shrinkage happening in a lot of the incorrupt, which leads to them looking kind of weird and, well, cadaverous, so oftentimes, the caretakers will have a coating of wax applied to the skin to seal in the moisture.
 
I am sure that if there is a God, and for some reason He wants to demonstrate that certain people were saintly by preventing their bodies from decaying he would do so in a way which required no wax, or special treatment, and left bodies looking unlike any old mummy looks. Also bodies buried at sea, or in wet alluvial soil, or burned in fires would be found to be incorrupt. It is meant to be a miracle after all. I imagine God would have managed to preserve some bodies longer than a few hundred years also
 
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I am sure that if there is a God, and for some reason He wants to demonstrate that certain people were saintly by preventing their bodies from decaying he would do so in a way which required no wax, or special treatment, and left bodies looking unlike any old mummy looks. Also bodies buried at sea, or in wet alluvial soil, or burned in fires would be found to be incorrupt. It is meant to be a miracle after all. I imagine God would have managed to preserve some bodies longer than a few hundred years also
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You think that if you were correct it would be incredibly easy for you to just go dig up a body of someone that was buried right next to where one of the uncorrupted bodies was and it should be uncorrupted as well should it not?

I imagine if you were in Thomas’s shoes and had stuck your hand in Jesus’ side you would have then required that you were able to examine his head wounds and actually stick your finger through the holes in his hands to make sure it wasn’t a trick of the light. You then would have concluded that he was just someone the other apostles had found that looked like Jesus and had inflicted the corresponding wounds on him to trick you.

Saying a miracle is disproved simply because a greater miracle could have been done is an empty argument.
 
Nate13 said:
You think that if you were correct it would be incredibly easy for you to just go dig up a body of someone that was buried right next to where one of the uncorrupted bodies was and it should be uncorrupted as well should it not?

I imagine if you were in Thomas’s shoes and had stuck your hand in Jesus’ side you would have then required that you were able to examine his head wounds and actually stick your finger through the holes in his hands to make sure it wasn’t a trick of the light. You then would have concluded that he was just someone the other apostles had found that looked like Jesus and had inflicted the corresponding wounds on him to trick you.

Saying a miracle is disproved simply because a greater miracle could have been done is an empty argument.
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There are hundreds of bodies found in all sorts of places that are well preserved. Just Google ‘mummies’ and click on images. Belief in these as miracles can only be a form of credulity.
 
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You think that if you were correct it would be incredibly easy for you to just go dig up a body of someone that was buried right next to where one of the uncorrupted bodies was and it should be uncorrupted as well should it not?

I imagine if you were in Thomas’s shoes and had stuck your hand in Jesus’ side you would have then required that you were able to examine his head wounds and actually stick your finger through the holes in his hands to make sure it wasn’t a trick of the light. You then would have concluded that he was just someone the other apostles had found that looked like Jesus and had inflicted the corresponding wounds on him to trick you.

Saying a miracle is disproved simply because a greater miracle could have been done is an empty argument.

The difference is no embalming and science can’t explain why. Also, they don’t have a smell of decay or anything else. They actually smell nice and some flowery.
 
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