Nun’s body intact four years after death draws people to Missouri monastery

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Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster’s body was exhumed and found to be ‘incorrupt’, a sign of holiness and later justification for sainthood

Hundreds of people in the US have traveled to a monastery in a smallSister Wilhelmina Lancaster was the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a monastery in Gower, Missouri, about an hour outside of Kansas City.

In Catholicism, bodies that defy the decomposing process are known as “incorrupt”, which is a sign of holiness and later justification for sainthood. The process for sainthood has not been started for Lancaster, said the Bishop Johnston, the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph,More than 100 bodies have been incorrupt, reported Catholic News Agency. But Lancaster is likely the first Black person in the US to be found in an incorruptible state.

“In general, when we bury a body at our human decomposition facility, we expect it will take roughly five years for the body to become skeletonized,” Nicholas Passalacqua told. Passalacqua is an associate professor and director of forensic anthropology at Western Carolina University.

 

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