If you check out this web site you will see that St. Bernadette's body has never rotted over 150 years. There are other saints that have had their bodies not decaying. There are entire books written about these miracles called incorruptibles.
If you don't want to believe that is fine. Ignore the truth.
2006-11-29 22:56:20 · 8 answers · asked by Search4truth 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
www.catholicpilgrims.com/lourdes/ba_bernadette_intro.htm - 24k
2006-11-29 23:00:24 · update #1
you are certainly correct about this and the most recent case of this was the incorrupt body of little Jacinta of Fatima which was found to be in a remarkable state of preservation after being buried in very poor conditions in 1920, and dug up in the 1930`s.
she had died of the complications due to the outbreak of Spanish Flu that erupted at the end of world war 1, and killed over 30 million people around the world.
2006-11-29 23:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is there are ways and means to keep a body seemingly from decomposing and who has a vested interest in selling such a "miracle"? That's right-the very people who make money from looking after the artefacts. Even the Vatican is very hesitant to sanction such things as genuinely miraculous.
2006-11-29 23:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In the few hours in which it had been exposed to the air, the body had started turning black."
"The fact that Bernadette's body was perfectly preserved is not necessarily miraculous. It is well known that corpses decompose to varying degrees in certain kinds of soil and may gradually mummify."
Her body was sealed in a lead coffin inside a wooden coffin.
"The wooden coffin was unscrewed and the lead coffin cut open to reveal the body in a state of perfect preservation. "
Which wasn't really perfect, if you read the statement that follows.
2006-11-29 23:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lenin's body has not corrupted either, so what is your point. Saint Bernadette is cased in wax. And there is no way to check and see if there are embalming chemicals in the body
2006-11-29 23:06:14 · answer #4 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they say, mockingly, that the purely fact in life is 'substitute!' Which by implication signifies that no longer something is sure, or sturdy. QED 'No element' that's high quality. no longer cynical or nihilistic. purely, fact.
2016-11-29 23:22:26 · answer #5 · answered by rieck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That defies the laws of nature and science. Saints are a Catholic-only belief.
Nice try.
2006-11-29 23:00:56 · answer #6 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yeah I have heard and read about st.Bernadette
2006-11-29 22:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OH ! GREAT SOULS
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE1!!
2006-11-29 23:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by R Purushotham Rao 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋