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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-nun-wilhemina-lancaster-exhumed-pilgrimage/
https://theweek.com/catholicism/1023883/thousands-flock-to-missouri-to-see-body-of-exhumed-nun
https://apnews.com/article/missouri...na-lancaster-50f099ca4346fd7192c78a8b5e22ae01
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https://theweek.com/catholicism/1023883/thousands-flock-to-missouri-to-see-body-of-exhumed-nun
https://apnews.com/article/missouri...na-lancaster-50f099ca4346fd7192c78a8b5e22ae01
Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it’s a sign of holiness in Catholicism,
Is this a "miracle"?
What kind of mess-up crap is this?
Visitors were allowed to touch her, Dawson said, adding that the nuns “wanted to make her accessible to the public ... because in real life, she was always accessible to people.”
The monastery said in a statement that Lancaster’s body will be placed in a glass shrine in their church on Monday. Visitors will still be able to see her body and take dirt from her grave, but they won’t be able to touch her.
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Rebecca George, an anthropology instructor at Western Carolina University in North Carolina, said the body’s lack of decomposition might not be as rare as people are expecting.
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