It’s never happened, because canonization normally takes generations.Apologizing in advance, because this is a little silly, but it’s stuck in my head. If a person became an organ donor and was then canonized, would the recipients be walking reliquaries?
Yeah, I know. I’m odd.
And relatively new in the scheme of things
Becoming a saint doesn’t automatically mean your body is cut up for relics.Apologizing in advance, because this is a little silly, but it’s stuck in my head. If a person became an organ donor and was then canonized, would the recipients be walking reliquaries?
Yeah, I know. I’m odd.
Sounds like the premise of a cool novel or short story.Apologizing in advance, because this is a little silly, but it’s stuck in my head. If a person became an organ donor and was then canonized, would the recipients be walking reliquaries?
Yeah, I know. I’m odd.
nodding head and chuckles I like the way you think!Apologizing in advance, because this is a little silly, but it’s stuck in my head. If a person became an organ donor and was then canonized, would the recipients be walking reliquaries?
Yeah, I know. I’m odd.
It is possible, but the JP2 pattern of canonization within a decade is extremely rare; centuries is far more likely.nodding head and chuckles I like the way you think!
I would be more to think that the recipients might become more saint like. And as someone pointed out, the recipients might be gone themselves by the time the saint was canonized. Then again, the rate they’ve been going lately, maybe its possible.
Fascinating question!!!
Exactly canonizations usually take a Long time. Also if you want to add to that the fact that the vast majority of saints - and by far - have either violent deaths, are extremely sick at the time of death, have weaken immune systems and bodies due to poor diets and physical sacrifices they make to sttenght their spirituality, or lived in contact/ took care of people with severe contagious diseases, the odds of a saint to be even “eligible” as an organ donor are close to 0.
On the other hand, **everybody **either dies violently or is “extremely ill at the time of death.” That’s the nature of death: body is too weakened or damaged to breathe, or hold life, anymore.
I don’t think you are getting what I meant. Yes everybody is ill at the time of death and people who die violently are perfect for organ donation but the circumstances in which saints die violently are very different and the kind of life that most saints live are very different to most people, and those different circumstances is what makes it unlikely. For example, taking modern saints, Padre Pio used to eat basically nothing and he barely drank water. If I remember correctly his diet was bread and potatos about three times a week. That was it. How many non saints who are terminally ill spent their lives on a life of bread twice a week? Barely anyone. Because of his extreme diet Padre Pio’s organ at death would have been much more deteriorated than a regular person. So despite the fact that a regular person is also gravely ill at the time of death, the condition of Padre Pio’s entire body - barely any nutrients, not enough hydration, extremely low immune system, heavy anemia, etc. - would make him unsuitable for donation, while a regular person maybe due to an illness has x organs unsuitable, others are suitable. No doctor would use padre pio’s liver for donation because basically it would give you a highly dehidrated liver that for about 30 years has only processed bread and potato’s. Also keep in mind that most saints - again by far - die from severe infectious diseases which would render them unsuitable immediately for donations.
Not an issue.
I like the way you think.