Many of the monastery’s visitors said they believed Sr. Wilhelmina’s body to be miraculously incorrupt. ...
“Sister Wilhelmina's body was not embalmed, nor was there anything to preserve her in the state in which we buried her,” [the abbey’s superior, Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell] explained. “There were bugs eating at the foam under her, but none had touched her body or her habit - the latter’s failure to deteriorate being a phenomenon just as miraculous as her intact body!” ...
Many visitors to the abbey since the discovery of her intact remains have voiced belief that their preservation is “miraculous,” and noted incorruption after death is a sign often associated with saints. ...
In De Cadaverum Incorruptione, written in the mid-1800s, Pope Benedict XIV stated that an incorruptible body should only be considered miraculous when its lifelike condition is maintained for a great period of time.
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