back in grade school (I went to Catholic school) I remember hearing about some female saint whose body hasn't rotted or anything since she died & is on display in a glass case somewhere. I was wanting to say it was Saint Theresa but I'm not sure & am not finding anything about her.

can anyone help me out?

St. Bernadette of Lourdes.

The term is incorrupt, by the way.

thanks!

quote:Here you see the incorrupt body of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. Very fine wax masks were laid over the face and hands in 1925 to disguise the sunken eyes and nose and the blackish tinge to the face and hands. During the first exhumation (1909) the face had been "a dull white" and the hands "perfectly preserved" but the nose was already "dilated and shrunken". The eyes were not noted as having yet sunk. She died on April 16, 1879.

It's not that the body isn't rotting, it's that it's doing so very slowly. If you bury somebody in the right conditions, you'll have that. The ancient Egyptians realized that if they buried bodies in the sand, they wouldn't rot as fast. Same thing here.