Incorruptibility

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Incorruption is a property that ascribes the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox hagiographic tradition the remains of saints.

General

Imperishable, must be distinguished from artificial mummification and natural physical and biochemical conditions that may cause the conservation of body shape.

Several whole-body relics are presented in apparently unverwestem state of worship. Such incorruption is understood as a supernatural phenomenon. By God's creative power prevents or retards the natural process of decay of the human corpse, he confirms the sanctity of the dead. Biblical background of this view is especially Ps 16,10 EU in the Septuagint version, as it is quoted among others in Acts 2.27 EU: " yet you let your Holy One see corruption. "

However, the phenomenon of natural mummification is also independent of a religious veneration of the dead be observed, examples are the Knights of Kahlbutz and the mummies in the Bremen Bleikeller.

Roman Catholic Church

In the Roman Catholic Church on incorruption is regarded as a divine sign. As a relevant for the canonization miracle does not apply incorruption.

Since the 19th century an attempt is made to distinguish the alleged incorruption with scientific means of natural and artificial mummification. An example of a manmade mummification is the non- vest body of Blessed Pope John XXIII, who was mummified by chemical methods and survived through the air in a three- fold sealed coffin today.

Some of the incorruptible bodies that are located in reliquaries, face and hands are covered with wax replicas, such as St. Bernadette.

Orthodox Church

Also in the Orthodox churches whose incorruptibility is part of the worship in a significant number of saints. Various legends tell of the miraculous discovery of such holy body.

Examples

Orthodox tradition

  • Anthony, John and Eustathius
  • Saint Alexander Svirsky
  • Saint Dimitri of Rostov
  • Saint Job of Pochayiv
  • Saint John of Euboea
  • Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Saint Spyridon
  • Saint Dionysius of Zante
  • Holy Gerasimus of Kefalonia
  • Saints Zosima
  • Saint Elizabeth

Roman Catholic tradition

  • Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
  • Saint Albert the Great
  • Saint Alphege of Canterbury
  • Saint Andrew Bobola
  • Angela Merici Saint
  • Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria
  • Saint Antoninus
  • Saint Benedict the Moor
  • Saint Benezet
  • Saint Bernadette Soubirous
  • Saint Bernardine of Siena
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis
  • Blessed María de León Bello y Delgado
  • Saint Catherine Labouré
  • St Cecilia
  • Saint Catherine of Bologna
  • Saint Catherine of Genoa
  • Saint Catherine de ' Ricci
  • Saint Catherine of Siena
  • Saint Charles Borromeo
  • Saint Cecilia
  • Saint Clare of Montefalco
  • Saint Koloman
  • Saint Cuthbert
  • Saint Dominic Savio (1842 - 1857)
  • Saint Edmund Rich of Canterbury
  • Saint Edward the Confessor
  • Saint Etheldreda
  • Holy Eustochia Calafato
  • Saint Frances of Rome
  • Saint Francis de Sales
  • Saint Francis Xavier
  • Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda ( born April 2, 1602 - † May 24, 1665 )
  • Saint Frances Cabrini Xaviera
  • Saint Germaine Cousin
  • Saint Guthlac
  • Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia (founder of the Daughters of Divine Zeal and Rogationists )
  • Holy Herculanus Piegaro
  • Saint Hugh of Lincoln
  • Holy Idesbald
  • Saint Isidore the Farmer
  • Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
  • Saint Jean -Marie -Baptiste Vianney ( The Curé of Ars )
  • Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac
  • Holy Joaquina de Vedruna
  • Saint John Bosco
  • Saint John of God
  • Saint John of the Cross
  • Saint John Southworth
  • Saint Josaphat
  • Holy Julie Billiart
  • Saint Louis Bertrand
  • Saint Louise de Marillac
  • Saint Luigi Orione
  • St. Lucy Filippini
  • Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
  • Blessed Mafalda of Portugal
  • St. Margaret of Cortona
  • Saint Maria Goretti
  • Venerable Mariana Francisca de Jesús Torres
  • Saint Martin de Porres
  • Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi
  • Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart
  • Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
  • Saint Pacifico of San Severino
  • Saint Paschal Baylon
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi
  • Saint Philip Neri
  • Saint Pierre Julien Eymard
  • Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Saint Rita of Cascia
  • Saint Romuald
  • Saint Rose of Lima
  • Santa Rosa de Viterbo
  • Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
  • Saint Silvan
  • Holy Sperandia
  • Saint Stanislaus Kostka
  • Saint Teresa of Ávila
  • Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart (Anna Maria Redi )
  • Holy Ubald of Gubbio
  • Saint Veronica Giuliani
  • Saint Vincent de Paul
  • Saint Vincent Pallotti
  • Saint Waltheof
  • Saint Werburgh
  • Holy Withburga
  • Holy Wunibald
  • Saint Zita
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