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The Church has had independent teams of scientist examine her body a few times.
The thing is, the bodies of the nuns buried in the same style coffins next to her in the convent graveyard, did decompose, but not Bernadette’s. Also, her clothes had started to decompose, and the nuns changed them, before returning her to the grave, after the first exhumation. The wax they applied is because her skin was drying out and darkening, do to the candles burned
in the chapel. Her body was not immediately placed in the glass coffin you see. For a time her body laid out in the open.
Other incorruptibles who died long before the technology of glass coffins came about, their skin darkened due to the number of candles that are burned in the chapels and churches where they lay. This is the case not just for the body, but the entire enclosure of the building. The ceilings and walls darken from the burning candles, over time.
Napolean for example, had very good preservation of body upon his exhumation hundreds of years later. The scientists were amazed … since clearly he was no saint. His preservation was due to arsenic in the tissues … thus, he was poisoned.QUOTE]
