St. John (Maximovitch) - Incorrupt?

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Incorrupt doesn’t mean the body is perfectly preserved, it means that no preservation techniques were used on the body, but it hasn’t decomposed at a normal rate. Many of the Incorruptables look as this saint does, but they are hundreds, many of hundreds, of years old with no preservation.
 
I presume his face is covered because it’s too skeletal??? That picture of Benedette is incredible.
 
Keep in mind St. Bernadette’s face and hands are covered with wax.
 
I presume his face is covered because it’s too skeletal??? That picture of Benedette is incredible
In Orthodoxy and Byzantine Catholicism, the face of a priest or bishop is ALWAYS covered with a chalice veil as token that he now beholds nothing else but God (or so we pray).

In the same way, the klobuk (veiled headdress) of a monk or nun is reversed, covering the face.
 
Cluny said:
I presume his face is covered because it’s too skeletal??? That picture of Benedette is incredible
In Orthodoxy and Byzantine Catholicism, the face of a priest or bishop is ALWAYS covered with a chalice veil as token that he now beholds nothing else but God (or so we pray).

In the same way, the klobuk (veiled headdress) of a monk or nun is reversed, covering the face.
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Interesting. Thank you.
 
Ahh. Thank you.

That toll-house idea is weird. Do you know any scriptural evidence for it, or apolstolic tradition (I presume orthodox have a claim to apostolic tradition as catholics do - or am I worng?).
 
hi, everyone, Im orthodox, and in google when I searched "St John Maximovitch" I founded this forum. I want to tell you that the saints in our church the saints are not treated with wax or some chemicals thats why the bodies of the saints are not perfecetly preserved, but for exemple the temperature of their bodies is equal to this of live human body orthodoxphotos.com/Holy_Relics/St._John_Maximovitch/6.jpg This is a picture of relics of St John in `94 when the relics are caried into cathedral for church glorification.
 
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I presume his face is covered because it’s too skeletal??? That picture of Benedette is incredible.
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His face is covered because he is clergy. It is customary for priests and bishops to have their head covered at burial.
 
There are natural explantions for many instances of retarded decoposition (some are thousands of years old). Sometimes the presence of, e.g., akaline in the grave site can account for “saponification”. Also mumified (dehydrated) corpses will decompose at a slower rate. One would have to know the condition of the burial site and the subject to determine the type of decomposition. Such naturally occuring cases would need to be ruled-out before making such a determination from the Catholic standpoint. I do not know what the Orthodox criteria are for such cases. In the absence of any other causes (e.g., embalming), it is very unusual for a corpse to be mostly intact after almost three decades.

(For what it’s worth, the face of St. Bernadette has been covered with a wax mask even though the body is totally preserved.)
 
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