St Francis Xavier relic of arm

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I love that his arm is incorrupt because he baptized so many. He used his arm for divine purposes and now it is incorrupt. Just like St. Anthony of Padua’s tongue. The saints are so cool. 😎
 
Joe_5859 said:
I love that his arm is incorrupt because he baptized so many. He used his arm for divine purposes and now it is incorrupt. Just like St. Anthony of Padua’s tongue. The saints are so cool. 😎
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I wasn’t aware of the significance.

That is cool. Cooler than kool-aid.
 
Yes, he baptized I think somewhere around 30,000 people. And it’s his baptizing arm that is incorrupt. 🙂
 
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What does that mean?
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In the normal course of things, bodies decay and disintegrate after a person dies.

Some saints are “incorrupt”. This means that their body has not decayed as you would expect. For some saints, their whole body is incorrupt. For other saints (like St. Francis Xavier), just part of their body is incorrupt.

St. John XXIII is incorrupt. He is in a glass tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. You can go right up to it. It looks like he is simply sleeping, even though he has been dead for over 50 years.
 
Thanks for sharing. That article illustrates an important point. The Church waits for natural explanations to be exhausted before formally declaring that something miraculous took place.

To be fair, this doesn’t mean that John XXIII is not incorrupt. It only means that—at this point in time—natural explanations may suffice to explain his current state of preservation. Time will tell if something miraculous is going on. We’ll see what he looks like in a couple hundred years. 😉
 
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