... It's an interesting little slice of life/potential miracle story. I especially like that last quote. It feels like it could come straight out of Lake Wobegon.
Four years after burying Sister Wilhelmina, the order’s founder, in a simple wood coffin in a corner of the property, the sisters decided to move her body into a customary place of honor inside their church.
When they opened the coffin, expecting to find bones that could be easily cleaned and placed in a new box, they instead found what looked and even felt remarkably like Sister Wilhelmina herself. Her face was recognizable, even after years in a damp coffin, and the sisters said that her beloved habit was “immaculate.”
For the Benedictines of Mary, this immediately signaled that Sister Wilhelmina may be an “incorruptible,” a term the Catholic Church uses to describe people whose bodies — or parts of their bodies — did not decompose after death. Believers in the phenomenon say there have been more than 100 examples worldwide, mostly in Europe.
Michael O’Neill, who hosts a national radio show called “The Miracle Hunter” on the Catholic station EWTN, said that the case of Sister Wilhelmina, who was Black, was especially distinctive. “There’s never been an African American incorruptible; in fact there’s never been an American of any sort who’s an incorruptible,” he said. “So this is big news.”
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“I used to think something like this could only happen in Europe, or St. Louis,”
It's an interesting little slice of life/potential miracle story. I especially like that last quote. It feels like it could come straight out of Lake Wobegon.
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It's an interesting little slice of life/potential miracle story. I especially like that last quote. It feels like it could come straight out of Lake Wobegon.