![]() ![]() In an email to USA TODAY, Lori Rosebrough of Overland Park, Kansas, who stood in line to see the remains, said the incorrupt body is a testimony to Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's holiness, and that she hopes this will give cause to the Catholic Church to raise the nun's title to Saint. The process to pursue sainthood has not been initiated "in this case yet," Bishop Johnston, the Diocese of Kansas City–St. In Catholicism, a body that resists normal decay after death is considered incorrupt, and "incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection of the body and the life that is to come," according to the Catholic News Agency. Joseph in their chapel, according to Catholic Key magazine. ![]() She was originally entombed in the outdoor convent cemetery in Gower, Missouri, and was being relocated to a shrine to St. Hundreds of people have descended on a rural Missouri town to flock to a convent that recently exhumed the remains of its founder.įour years after the death and burial of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at age 95, The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles made a surprising discovery after sisters exhumed her wooden coffin on May 18 and found her remains to be remarkably intact. ![]()
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