Incorruptable

[tinkerbell23]

How have saints bodies remained intact after hundreds of years?

Some possibly embalmed but not all? And even so!?

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[Tom Braider]

Which saints are you talking about? I don't know of any whose bodies have remained intact.

[Mosaic]

Crimes Tom! Italy and parts of France abound with miraculously undecayed saints.....gives me the absolute heebies. if you get close they are obviously skeletons or very dessicated bodies - often the visible parts have been given wax coatings eg faces and hands.
It used to be a majr article of catholicism - denying that these were terribly worrying horrid scarey skellybones was doubting your faith.
it's not like that now but in foreign parts the tradition lingers on.
Embalming, if used, was not well understood or effective.
As a big treat a nun took us to see one right close up in France...I've never got over it.

[NOX]

''terribly worrying horrid scarey skellybones''
Mosaic you've just cheered me up for the whole day:)

Yeah pretty much what Mosaic said Tinks- they really aren't all that and a bag of potato chips close up...

[boxtops]

Exactly, they're not intact as in the same state as when they died - they are partly preserved and some are surely just bones.

[nannybooby]

I think that this is due to where they have been 'stored' think they kind of air dry into mummies. However having said that I think that one of the Earls of Derwentwater ,who was martyered in the civil war was later found in intact and that was in the uk.

[douglas9401]

They may have been in contact with The Mysterons.

http://www.wramrobins...mon.nl/scar/scar.html

[Mosaic]

nannyB is right about drying-out.....people still occasionally find awful surprises of this kind in old attics - it's a balance of a stable dry atmosphere and the availabilty of drainage for fluids.
Sorry, just going to return my brekkie.....
Historic reports of bodies being intact need to be analysed carefully - as not decaying was seen as a mark of saintliness, this was among the battery of propaganda claims made when people had axes to grind.
Plus it could include use of sealed coffins and rudimentary embalming that might delay the process.
Then there's very strange environments like St Michan's Church Dublin - do not look at any of the images if you goole this one, you won't sleep for weeks.

[Tom Braider]

I doubt that Tinkerbell really wanted an answer, or will even look at the responses given. But despite Mosaic and his skellybones I'm still waiting for details of any body that is

[Mosaic]

oo Tom - handbags, ten paces..

[wildwood]

The wonder about 'incorruptibles' is that they are neither purposely preserved nor embalmed. The claim is that the skin and tissue is still soft and moist, but of course.... no member of the public gets to touch one. Here are some on youtube.



To me, they look very plasticy... Silicony even. :-)

[RATTER15]

^^^^ you would need to be a Christian to believe that :)

[tinkerbell23]

Tom....if you would care to look at my profile....you will see that I always reply...

I wouldnt ask if i didnt want an answer- thanks
Your answer: Google incorruptable saints, See videos etc....i am no expert...hence the question!

Ratter...i am. It puzzles me x

[tinkerbell23]

Ps
Thanks for all the other answers guys- i read that they are actually still plyable as if they are sleeping....

Strange xx