Padre Pio and Incorruptability

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I saw it too! The blink.

However, I will, for now, dismiss it as something on the digital camera 😉

Neat62 - thanks be to God the miracle. Thank you St. Padre Pio for interceeding for this family! Amen
 
I hope to post you guys a photo of Jacinta Marto (Fatima). It shows her being exhumed, to be transferred to the Basilica, some 15 years after she had died and she looks perfect.
 
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Yes, but the better looking ones have some wax reconstruction involved. I’m talking about St. Zita or St. Catherine of Bologna for instance, there is clearly some discolorization and decay going on.

If they can see St. Padre Pio’s skull then that is clearly decay as well.

I dunno, to each his own, I just don’t get the whole bodies on display deal and find the incorruptibles a bit exaggerated…and creepy.

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Yes me too, Jesus should not have shown Thomas those wounds in His side, instead shown everyone a complete un-tortured un-corruptable body, maybe then many would have believed in Him.
 
Gusto said:
I hope to post you guys a photo of Jacinta Marto (Fatima). It shows her being exhumed, to be transferred to the Basilica, some 15 years after she had died and she looks perfect.
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I wonder why there are no readily available pictures of her.

In the book “Fatima in Lucia’s own words” there is a picture of the coffin being opened, I suppose a shroud being lifted and we only see most of her face and hair intact and the rest of her body still covered by the shroud…that is the only picture I have seen. It sounds like the one you saw and if I get to a scanner, maybe I can post it.

Her life story is in fact interesting, as best as I can remember, Her mother took her to Lisbon, the big city to get treatment, but they had trouble with it, she went to two hospitals…and as forecasted, “you will die alone” and she did in a hospital room from I believe the influenza (and she developed pleurisy too), the epidemic that took Francisco’s life too.

“Slowly the lid was slid back, creaking and groaning to heighten the already awesome tension, but instead of the anticipated stink of corruption, a wonderful fragrance rose from the coffin, to fill the mausoleum with its delicate boquet.”

“… Jacinta looked as fresh and lovely as she had in life, in spite of her body being in the mausoleum for fifteen years.” - The song of the 3 shepherds, page 233, by James Hardiman.
On St. Pio; they said on the radio his body was in good shape. So, they didn’t go as far as to say incorrupt. The odor is another thing too, that marks these individuals. I’ve also seen other pictures of other Holy people’s remains who did not make the Incorrupt category.

Do they call that odor, the odor of sanctification?
 
The picture of St Bernadette even has nail polish. Would good nuns who never used it, do this to a beautiful saint? Why wouldn’t they accept the state that God allowed her after death? Sometimes we all get too wordly.

I love Padre Pio and have had miracles done by him - overnight - a life or death one. I smelled a beautiful fragrance for two days and he gave me the most worry free and relaxed feeling that I didn’t want to give up. I have had roses from St Theresa and was used in an unmistakenly way by St Jude for a friend’s prayer in a year’s span. I didn’t realize it for several years, how my life and friends lives were woven into her prayer request. It 's such a shame that those who don’t believe in God or those who don’t believe in praying to the saints are missing quite a bit in their life.
 
liebee said:
The picture of St Bernadette even has nail polish. Would good nuns who never used it, do this to a beautiful saint? Why wouldn’t they accept the state that God allowed her after death? Sometimes we all get too wordly.

I love Padre Pio and have had miracles done by him - overnight - a life or death one. I smelled a beautiful fragrance for two days and he gave me the most worry free and relaxed feeling that I didn’t want to give up. I have had roses from St Theresa and was used in an unmistakenly way by St Jude for a friend’s prayer in a year’s span. I didn’t realize it for several years, how my life and friends lives were woven into her prayer request. It 's such a shame that those who don’t believe in God or those who don’t believe in praying to the saints are missing quite a bit in their life.
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I agree with everything you have said here…I think it’s wonderful to read and is an inspiration to me.👍

BUT, the nail polish thingie, could you provide a quote for that?
 
Shoshana:

I’m not sure how to use this forum yet and am not sure what you mean by provide a quote.
 
liebee said:
Shoshana:

I’m not sure how to use this forum yet and am not sure what you mean by provide a quote.
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Hi liebee!

Welcome to our big Catholic family! Make yourself at home. 🙂 A quote is from a link that you research on the statement you made. The reason i asked is because, it may seem that she has nail polish on, but that may not be necessarily true. I know that the nuns wahed her face when they exhumed her and put on a fresh habit (which caused her skin to darken a bit, thus a wax mask)…but her body was totally perfect. She died of TB of the bone. She looks better dead than I do alive!:o

She had to be the most humblest being. She is my one of my favourites as I am french and Lourdes is a devotion most special to us.

As far as the quote…I will try to look for it and see if I succeed.👍
 
This really isn’t about what y’all are talking about, but it’s a Padre Pio story.

A very good friend of mine (from Michigan) was visiting his sister who was living in Italy in 1968 or so. They were passed by a throng of people and eventually figured out that Padre Pio happened to be at the same church they were visiting at the time.

So my friend (a former seminarian who was fluent in Latin) was able to make an appointment to go to confession to Padre Pio at a precise time. His sister told him that time and appointments mean practically nothing to Europeans and it is quite fashionable to be late.

He got there fifteen minutes late, and the secretary suggested he buy a watch. No Padre Pio for my friend. 😦
 
SongofShepherds said:
I wonder why there are no readily available pictures of her.

In the book “Fatima in Lucia’s own words” there is a picture of the coffin being opened, I suppose a shroud being lifted and we only see most of her face and hair intact and the rest of her body still covered by the shroud…that is the only picture I have seen. It sounds like the one you saw and if I get to a scanner, maybe I can post it.

Her life story is in fact interesting, as best as I can remember, Her mother took her to Lisbon, the big city to get treatment, but they had trouble with it, she went to two hospitals…and as forecasted, “you will die alone” and she did in a hospital room from I believe the influenza (and she developed pleurisy too), the epidemic that took Francisco’s life too.

“Slowly the lid was slid back, creaking and groaning to heighten the already awesome tension, but instead of the anticipated stink of corruption, a wonderful fragrance rose from the coffin, to fill the mausoleum with its delicate boquet.”

“… Jacinta looked as fresh and lovely as she had in life, in spite of her body being in the mausoleum for fifteen years.” - The song of the 3 shepherds, page 233, by James Hardiman.
On St. Pio; they said on the radio his body was in good shape. So, they didn’t go as far as to say incorrupt. The odor is another thing too, that marks these individuals. I’ve also seen other pictures of other Holy people’s remains who did not make the Incorrupt category.

Do they call that odor, the odor of sanctification?
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http://www.crc-internet.org/images/jacinta.jpg

The first exhumation of Jacinta’s body, on 12 September 1935. This photograph, which her cousin Sister Lucy found so moving, was taken in the cemetery of Vila Nova de Ourem, when the lead coffin was opened. Father Ludwig Fischer examines the seer’s face, so well preserved fifteen years after her death.
crc-internet.org/jan00a.htm
 
Karl_M said:
This really isn’t about what y’all are talking about, but it’s a Padre Pio story.

A very good friend of mine (from Michigan) was visiting his sister who was living in Italy in 1968 or so. They were passed by a throng of people and eventually figured out that Padre Pio happened to be at the same church they were visiting at the time.

So my friend (a former seminarian who was fluent in Latin) was able to make an appointment to go to confession to Padre Pio at a precise time. His sister told him that time and appointments mean practically nothing to Europeans and it is quite fashionable to be late.

He got there fifteen minutes late, and the secretary suggested he buy a watch. No Padre Pio for my friend. 😦
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You are kidding…please tell me you are kidding!

I would beat myself up for having missed a confession appointment with Padre Pio…oh, my … that is an amazing story…

and I would probably poke the eye of my sister for telling me it was okay to be fashionably late in Europe! Heck, I think that I would have camped out the night before just to make sure that I wasn’t late.

Really, though…neat story!
 
You all miss the point! I haven’t read much on Padre Pio, but I have read enough to know, he could give the soul the exact medicine it needed, he could read the soul.

Hundreds, maybe thousands of people from around the world went to him especially for the grace he gave through the sacrament of Confession, this was not like your Saturday afternoon dropping into the Church to go to Confession.

Indeed, it would be like going to a Doctor’s office, you don’t believe you can 15 minutes late for that. For Padre Pio, since he was in such demand, you had to make appointments.

Of course, the poster is NOT kidding.
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You are kidding…please tell me you are kidding!

I would beat myself up for having missed a confession appointment with Padre Pio…oh, my … that is an amazing story…

and I would probably poke the eye of my sister for telling me it was okay to be fashionably late in Europe! Heck, I think that I would have camped out the night before just to make sure that I wasn’t late.

Really, though…neat story!
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“…On the following day he left for San Giovanni Rotondo.** He registered for Confession to Padre Pio but had to wait a few days. **This wait for him was full of doubts and temptations, and he often asked himself, “But what am I doing here? What do I have to do with Padre Pio?” Still he stayed, and when his turn came, he made an excellent Confession to Padre Pio with which, as he himself said, he received a new life and a happiness he had never before known.” - tanbooks.com/doct/padre_pio.htm

“…Who spoke many languages in the confessional.”

"Padre Pio was a martyr of the confessional. Sometimes he would hear confessions as long as 18 hours a day. He wrote a friend: “I am well but very busy day and night, hearing hundreds of confessions daily…”

members.aol.com/goodyburk/padrepio.html

They say, he could actually bilocate which means being in two places at once.
 
DaveBj said:
I’m not up on Padre Pio, but my understanding is that “incorruptibility” means that the flesh doesn’t decay. It does not mean, however, that the flesh does not subside (sink), turn color, or things like that.

St. Bernadette is also incorrupt, but they’ve made a wax mask for her face and hands, because the flesh was turning dark. However, it was not decaying.

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I have been to Lourdes twice. The second pilgrimiage included a side trip to Nevers to view St. Bernadette.

Yes, there is a “waxen mask” over her face but the cause for the darkening of her face is said to be from the thousands of flashbulb pictures taken by tourists. The flashbulbs ignite carbons in her glass enclosure and they settled on her exposed facial areas and thus cause the darkening.

She is totally incorruptable even to the point that her flech is not mummified…it is still pliable…

Read “The Incorruptibles” it researches all of the known incorruptables. Very, very powerful.
 
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I have been to Lourdes twice. The second pilgrimiage included a side trip to Nevers to view St. Bernadette.

Yes, there is a “waxen mask” over her face but the cause for the darkening of her face is said to be from the thousands of flashbulb pictures taken by tourists. The flashbulbs ignite carbons in her glass enclosure and they settled on her exposed facial areas and thus cause the darkening.

She is totally incorruptable even to the point that her flech is not mummified…it is still pliable…

Read “The Incorruptibles” it researches all of the known incorruptables. Very, very powerful.
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members.chello.nl/~l.de.bondt/IncorruptBodies.htm

The picture of St. Catherine of Bologna, sitting up, incorrupt and interestingly, very dark.

Also, members.chello.nl/~l.de.bondt/CatherineofBologna.htm

"The flesh may have grown dark … etc. " < that site does not let one copy and paste>
 
saylo said:
I have been to Lourdes twice. The second pilgrimiage included a side trip to Nevers to view St. Bernadette.

Yes, there is a “waxen mask” over her face but the cause for the darkening of her face is said to be from the thousands of flashbulb pictures taken by tourists. The flashbulbs ignite carbons in her glass enclosure and they settled on her exposed facial areas and thus cause the darkening.

She is totally incorruptable even to the point that her flech is not mummified…it is still pliable…

Read “The Incorruptibles” it researches all of the known incorruptables. Very, very powerful.
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Just a minor correction here…her flesh turned dark was because the nuns washed her body and the chemicals caused it to blacken. That is why.🙂
 
The saint of “The Miraculous Medal” …St. Catherine Laboure is incorrupt under an altar in Paris.

Her eyes are still open. They were unable to close them and they are lifelike and blue as thet were in life. Amazing.
 
saylo said:
The saint of “The Miraculous Medal” …St. Catherine Laboure is incorrupt under an altar in Paris.

Her eyes are still open. They were unable to close them and they are lifelike and blue as thet were in life. Amazing.
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