Incorruptible saints

Hundreds of pilgrims have been flocking to a monastery in Missouri to visit the apparently incorruptible body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster.

By Father George Rutler The canonization of Marianne Cope, along with Kateri Tekakwitha, on October 21, occasioned the publication ...

There are some things, as a Catholic, that I'd prefer were kept secret from my Evangelical friends and family. True, it's bad enough that we have the

The body of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the mystic who was visited by Our Lady of Lourdes, was exhumed three times and was found incorrupt.

St. Deodatus 679 AD formerly the Bishop of Nevers [which sounds like a villainous movie character] his feast day is June 19 & he is the patron saint invoke for rain and against thunderstorms and the plague St. Theodosius II 11th Century from Kiev he has two feast days [fancy boy] May 3rd and August…

According to Catholic tradition, incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection of the body and the life that is to come.

This spirit of hope can be seen in their last words in particular, when they could almost see what lay ahead for them for all eternity.

The Italian nun grimaced at my camera, reviewing the photo that she had just snapped of me. We had to take another, she explained. The shriveled corpse to my...

Saint Catherine of Bologna, Catherina de 'Vigri, was an Italian Poor Clare nun, writer, teacher, mystic, and artist. Caterina was born in Bologna, on September 8, 1413, she was the daughter of the Ferrarese nobleman Giovanni de'Vigri, professor of law at the University of Bologna. Despite being born into wealth and privilege she preferred to follow a very spiritual path and followed a monastic life of seclusion. An image of Santa Catherine in life She was described as being well loved during…