"Miracle of Missouri: Nun's Body Found Intact 4 Years After Death"

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Source: The Independent
"Miracle of Missouri: Nun's Body Found Intact 4 Years After Death"
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Thousands of people flocked to rural Gower, Missouri, over Memorial Day weekend to view the almost perfectly preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, the founder of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, who died in 2019. Her remains were exhumed last month in preparation for construction of a planned St Joseph Shrine to her within the abbey’s oratory. The Catholic Church considers a body that does not decompose naturally as expected, such as Sister Wilhelmina’s reportedly hasn’t, to be “incorrupt” and a sign of sanctity on the possible journey to sainthood.

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