The incorruptibles on Youtube - Non decomposing catholic saints

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You gotta check this out.
These bodies of the saints, have been for as long as 600 years, even more, and still intact.

It reminds us of the resurrection of the body. That we have immortal souls, and also our body will be resurrected. That is why chastity is very important. If not, if we have wicked body, it will also resurrect, but to be in hell. Separated from God.

The Incorruptibles:
youtube.com/watch?v=9jE0j8M1Pfo

Incorrupt bodies of the saints part 1:
youtube.com/watch?v=qi9_sASaMd8&playnext=1&list=PL1EDB1E5D30AFFD65

Incorrupt bodies of the saints part 4
youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2eKC2q4VE&feature=related

there are 5 parts of these, you can find it by yourself. There are more than 250 incorrupt saints in the catholic church, including

St Padre pio incorrupt body
youtube.com/watch?v=sp8NKbiuQzM

Padre Pio, a humble Capuchin priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy , was blessed by God in many wonderful and mysterious ways. The most dramatic was the stigmata. Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years!

Among his other gifts were perfume, bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of souls, and miraculous cures. People are still being cured through his intercession in ways that cannot be explained by medicine or science.

More important, if less spectacular, are the spiritual healings that take place in all parts of the world! Padre Pio is a powerful intercessor!!

To see him resting so peacefully it’s hard to believe that he died 40 years ago.

St. Bernadette incorrupt body video:
youtube.com/watch?v=G5711hI04mw



You do not have to go on a pilgrimage to Lourdes to see the body of St Bernadette. Just a click on youtube.

May the Merciful Jesus Bless you, and gives you his mercy

Here is a webpage for incorrupt saints, with pictures and story:
overcomeproblems.com/incorruptables.htm

fisheaters.com/relics.html
 
Hokomai said:
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This article makes some interesting points. It does get some things wrong though, such as implying that incorruptibility is an official teaching of the church, that Catholics are obliged to believe (which is not true). It also implies that St. Padre Pio’s body is believed to be incorrupt, when in fact all of the news reports I saw in the Catholic media at the time that his body was exhumed said that his body was found to be partially preserved from decay, but NOT incorrupt. The fact that a wask mask was placed on Padre Pio’s body is probably not a surprise to those who read Catholic media coverage at the time.

However, the article does provide some facts that I did not know, such as the face of St. Bernadette actually being a wax replica. I would be interested to know whether the local church or diocese where her body resides has ever claimed otherwise – I honestly don’t know.

I don’t quite know what to think on the whole topic of incorruptibility, but I would be interested in an impartial scientific study of a few of the “best” cases of incorruptibility, to see if there is any truth to this phenomenon.
 
PaulGH said:
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However, the article does provide some facts that I did not know, such as the face of St. Bernadette actually being a wax replica. I would be interested to know whether the local church or diocese where her body resides has ever claimed otherwise – I honestly don’t know.
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If this article is correct, this whole thing is a sham.

I thought Padre Pio Padre Pio was untouched. Apparently he also has a wax face.

There is nothing wrong with saying some bodies took a long time to decompose, but eventually decompose.

It is definitely wrong to display wax faces and not indicate that.
 
TrueLight said:
If this article is correct, this whole thing is a sham.

I thought Padre Pio Padre Pio was untouched. Apparently he also has a wax face.

There is nothing wrong with saying some bodies took a long time to decompose, but eventually decompose.

It is definitely wrong to display wax faces and not indicate that.
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Perhaps it could mean that the whole thing is a sham, but I’m not convinced yet. For example, that article makes a big deal about Padre Pio’s body, but I wasn’t aware that anyone was claiming his body to be incorrupt. So the part about Padre Pio seemed to be a straw man argument.

Here is some coverage from Catholic news outlets at the time that Padre Pio’s body was exhumed:

Catholic News Agency: Devotees flock by the thousands to view Padre Pio’s body

Catholic News Agency: Padre Pio exhumed, body is “well preserved”

Catholic News Service: Cardinal: Relics of Padre Pio remind Catholics saints were people

These articles clearly state that his body was at least somewhat decomposed (though some of them make it sound like the decomposition was minimal, while others make it sound more substantial), and two of the articles mention that a wax mask was placed on the body.

Now, I completely agree with your reservations about the idea of putting a wax mask on any saint’s body. I think that there is too much possibility that people can be misled into thinking it is the saint’s real un-decomposed face (which apparently has happened). But it doesn’t appear that this was something that was done secretly, since it was reported in the news media at the time. However, I don’t know whether people who viewed the body were informed of the mask or not. If not, then that does seem somewhat deceptive, even if unintentionally.
 
PaulGH said:
Perhaps it could mean that the whole thing is a sham, but I’m not convinced yet. For example, that article makes a big deal about Padre Pio’s body, but I wasn’t aware that anyone was claiming his body to be incorrupt. So the part about Padre Pio seemed to be a straw man argument.

Here is some coverage from Catholic news outlets at the time that Padre Pio’s body was exhumed:

Catholic News Agency: Devotees flock by the thousands to view Padre Pio’s body

Catholic News Agency: Padre Pio exhumed, body is “well preserved”

Catholic News Service: Cardinal: Relics of Padre Pio remind Catholics saints were people

These articles clearly state that his body was at least somewhat decomposed (though some of them make it sound like the decomposition was minimal, while others make it sound more substantial), and two of the articles mention that a wax mask was placed on the body.

Now, I have reservations about the idea of putting a wax mask on any saint’s body. I think that there is too much possibility that people can be misled into thinking it is the saint’s real un-decomposed face (which apparently has happened). But it doesn’t appear that this was something that was done secretly, since it was reported in the news media at the time.
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Thanks for those links.

I was certainly misled because his body is displayed on countless YouTube videos as one of the “incorruptibles”, which shows that a lot of people mistake the wax face for his own face.
 
I actually has heard that yes, St Padre Pio’s face was decomposed, but the rest of the body was still intact. So they had to remake the face, but not the body.

As for St. Bernadette, I do not know. I think it is original.

Nevertheless, it is still awesome. The catholic church never lies, at least in the case of St. Padre Pio, and St. Bernadette, it is approved by the church officials, as pilgrimage destinations

They can’t be lying to us.

As for other bodies on youtube, I do not know, but I think it is still a miracle for a body for 600 years to still be in the original condition,
I do not think a wax can do that, and please do not question faith, we have to be simple to reach heaven you see… 🤷
 
I did, when I heard that St Padre Pio’s face was actually decomposed,
But I tried to be simple and with childlike trust to the mother church’s decision, you see.

Be childlike, like child Jesus, He said, that unless we become as little children, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven

Little children in trust to Jesus.

Little children never question their parents.

The Church is our mother, whatever she approves, we accept that with childlike trust. The teachings also. Unless it isn’t approved

But …

Also, we must be prudent, if we think that something is wrong (in the church) it doesn’t mean that we should accept that. By no means, no. We have to pray for the church.

Long live Jesus.

Have faith. These incorrupt bodies are just examples, they are not to be taken for granted. Only to show that we will resurrect at the Last day, together with our bodies. Our souls will be united together again with our glorified body, and will live together with Jesus and all the saints in heaven, seeing Jesus face to face, in happiness, for all eternity.

It is explained in the catechisms of St. Pope Pius X, about resurrection of the body. Isn’t it in our creed too? What we believe?
That we will resurrect with Christ, if we suffer with him?

St. Pope Pius X’s cathechisms
basilica.org/pages/ebooks/Msgr.%20Hagan-The%20Catechism%20of%20Saint%20Pope%20Pius%20X.pdf

That is what is important. Our salvation and resurrection with christ. To live eternally with him in heaven, see him face to face.
And our focus should be that.

May the merciful Jesus bless you, and grant you everlasting life with him in heaven

Our souls are immortal, so is our body that will be resurrected and glorified. Like Mother Mary, she has a body, doesn’t she?

Like St. Paul said in his epistle, that our natural body is different than our glorified body. God will clothe us with a body that is immortal, and the state of the body is of course different than that of our natural body

You can read that at the catechism of st. pope pius X too…

Well, she is the first to take part of that, in her annunciation, when she was taken up to heaven,
 
TrueLight said:
If this article is correct, this whole thing is a sham.

I thought Padre Pio Padre Pio was untouched. Apparently he also has a wax face.

There is nothing wrong with saying some bodies took a long time to decompose, but eventually decompose.

It is definitely wrong to display wax faces and not indicate that.
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There is no ‘sham’ in the scientific, not Catholic, fact that several saint’s bodies have been found to be incorrupt or partially corrupt; only some Catholic Saints. Other known partially incorrupt were mumified or chemically preserved. St Bernadet’s body is the most famous and best preserved; Only the Faces of St Bernadette and Padre Pio were partially decomposed, thus Wax improved faces because of popular viewing. ‘A history channel’ had a great documntary on incorrupt bodies: only some Catholic incorrupt saints were found naturally incorrupt, proving the point. The wax enhanced Faces are widelly known, noted publically as such.
 
Just throwing in my 2 cents. As far as the confusion with the wax this is what I was told about it (from the priest who led my RCIA classes). When the incorrupt body is displayed part of the process is to put a thin layer of wax over the whole body. This is done to protect the body. It seems a bit odd at first since the body is already incorrupt but I think it is a precautionary measure so that some human action doesn’t mess things up.
 
TheresaThoma said:
Just throwing in my 2 cents. As far as the confusion with the wax this is what I was told about it (from the priest who led my RCIA classes). When the incorrupt body is displayed part of the process is to put a thin layer of wax over the whole body. This is done to protect the body. It seems a bit odd at first since the body is already incorrupt but I think it is a precautionary measure so that some human action doesn’t mess things up.
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Thanks for the modern update. Everyone decomposes, at the Cell Level; Layers of cells. “Incorrupt” is a generalization: Not 100% incorruipt always. An acknowledged by science ‘imossible naturally’, it’s been found that only Catholic Holiest people, later recognized saints, are ‘incorrupt’. Most convincing ‘documentation, acknowledgement’ is The history channel program on ‘Incorrupt Saints’, available for purchase from them. Most of their prigrams on religious matters are very anti-catholic, Probably out of Jealousy that We’re Real, and impossibly so.
 
why are some Saints incorrupt and others are not? I suppose it’s not always God’s will.
 
Scientifically explained and not miraculous. What do you say about the non-christian “incorruptibles”. What about that buddhist monk?
 
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