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Incorrupt Saints

posted by [personal profile] jwaneeta at 11:51pm on 24/10/2004
In the spirit of the weird season, when all that is strange and slightly macabre finds joyous expression, I share this little bit of arcana from the bosom of Holy Mother Church: The Incorruptibles.

Incorruptibles are saints who, for whatever reason, didn't follow the course of nature and decay when they died. There are quite a few, and most of them are on display in glass reliquaries in chapels dotted about Europe. Their bodies have maintained a bizarre state of preservation for centuries -- one, St. Cecilia, has been incorrupt since AD 177.

I don't have any real opinion about why this happens; I just like the strange and inexplicable.
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posted by [identity profile] desoto-hia873.livejournal.com at 07:56am on 25/10/2004
That is truly very weird. I've never heard of The Incorruptibles.

The Incorruptibles. Sounds vaguely like a group of superheroes.
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posted by [identity profile] jwaneeta.livejournal.com at 08:49am on 25/10/2004
I'd love to see one up close, but we don't have any in the US, I don't think.

Yeah -- The Incorruptibles as a team of superheros. From beyond the grave they practice heroic virtue!
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posted by [identity profile] monanotlisa.livejournal.com at 05:36pm on 25/10/2004
Always been fascinated by this phenomenon, myself. Thanks for reminding me; I remember days of my childhood bent over books on strange things like that, wondering with my sister how this could defy the laws of nature.

Yes, my parents are both natural scientists.
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posted by [identity profile] jwaneeta.livejournal.com at 08:52pm on 25/10/2004
I'm a sucker for this sort of thing -- I've got far too many books about the weird. It's humiliating at used bookstores, where the guy in front of me has a stack of Descartes and Buber, and then I plunk down The Reader's Digest Book of Unexplained Phenomena. Sigh.

But incorrupt saints are especially good, because they come with pictures! The ones I scanned from the book are drek, but I found scads of newer ones in color online.

And now I blush, because I've admitted I just spent a perfectly good evening looking at dead saints on the internet.
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posted by [identity profile] monanotlisa.livejournal.com at 04:33am on 26/10/2004
Well, it IS hard to look at live saints, on the net or anywhere else... & ;-)

And GOD, I so hear you. Honestly, that was me-- not RD, maybe, being German, but what sis and I read then was okay but certainly not exactly high press class. Heh.

Then again, I can safely assume both your and my reading appetite was rather voracious, so there was still enough quality literature, or philosophy, too, in your case-- haven't read too much philosophers, sadly; in the transcendent writing field, I merely impress people with my knowledge of the bible. Admittedly, young and ignorant folks among my friends, but hey. *g*
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