Incorruptibility is a Catholic and Orthodox belief that divine intervention allows some human bodies to completely or partially avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their
The body of Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643–1731), Monastery of St. Catherine of Siena found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church (Tenerife, Spain).
The body of Saint Rita of Cascia, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church. (1381 – May 22, 1457)
Casket of Saint Francis Xavier in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, India
The body of Saint Virginia Centurione, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church. (April 2, 1587 – December 15, 1651)
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of
Incorruptibility
…Church officials remarked that the body had been embalmed and additionally that there was a lack of oxygen in his sealed triple coffin. The remains of Bernadette Soubirous were inspected multiple times, and reports by the church tribunal confirmed that the body was preserved. The opening of the coffin was attended by…
The Boly Mill was the birthplace of Bernadette Subirous and she lived there happily for the first ten years of her life until increasing poverty forced the family to move to poorer accommodation.
Old religious card with the apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France