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Jun 30, 2015 · From afar she looks ideally incorrupt but visitors who get close can see that the wrinkles in her face are formed in wax. A few dozen black hairs reach out from her blonde curls, signaling ...
Some are administered acid baths or other treatments to help sustain their incorruptibility. Many are encased in wax effigies or are given wax masks that represent their condition upon discovery. Others are reburied, and a metal, stone, or wax sculpture of the corpse is arrayed above or near the actual body.
- Melissa Petruzzello
- Here are six saints’ bodies whose bodies are incorrupt
- St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent de Paul’s heart and bones are completely incorrupt. His bones are underneath wax (pictured above) at the Chapel of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris, France.
- St. Catherine Labouré. St. Catherine Labouré was a Marian visionary and sister of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. The Blessed Mother gave her the Miraculous Medal during one of her apparitions.
- St. Bernadette. St. Bernadette was a Marian visionary known for the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes. Although there is a light wax mask covering her face and hands, her body is still fully intact.
You’ll see masks made of metal, like this one worn by Pope St. Pius V or saints entombed and represented by a sculpture showing how they were found, like this famous one of St. Cecelia. Conceptually, these covers are the same as wax masks.
May 25, 2023 · This can lead to confusion among pilgrims who see the body with a wax coating. Similarly, effigies containing relics of saints may be mistaken for the incorrupt bodies of those saints. Today, St. Vincent de Paul’s likeness is displayed with a wax mask and hands at St. Vincent de Paul Chapel in Paris.
The body of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes with wax face and hand coverings, declared to appear incorrupt by a committee in 1909 (subsequent exhumations indicated corruption). (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879).
