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May 29, 2023 · The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, an African American nun whose surprisingly intact remains have created a sensation at a remote Missouri abbey, was placed inside a glass display case...
- Who was Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, whose body is now the ...
When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles...
- A miracle in Missouri? Body of Benedictine Sisters’ foundress ...
A pilgrim venerates the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina...
- Who was Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, whose body is now the ...
May 24, 2023 · When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles exhumed the body of their foundress Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on April 28, they found the unexpected: Four years after her...
May 22, 2023 · A pilgrim venerates the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 20, 2023. Lancaster was recently exhumed in Gower, Missouri. | Credit: Kelsey Wicks/CNA.
May 26, 2023 · During an April 28 exhumation, the body of Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of the Most Holy Rosary—foundress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, in Gower,...
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Rumors of a flood cracking open the grave and the sisters’ examining the coffin by flashlight in the middle of the night are highly exaggerated, the abbess told the ACI Group. “I had to have the flashlight because you can’t really see in a dark crack even with the sunshine. I thought I saw a foot, but I just paused because, you know, it’s not every...
“You can’t Google, ‘What do you do with an incorrupt body?’” Abbess Cecilia said, “so we started with the basics, just cleaning her with hot water, because clinging to her face was basically a mask of thick mold.” This process as well as exposure to the air caused the body to lose some but not all of its volume, and as a result, a darkening of the ...
Since text messages and social-media posts began to circulate last week with pictures of the well-preserved body, hundreds of pilgrims have already journeyed to visit, sometimes from hours away in Kentucky, Illinois or closer nearby in Missouri, to pray in front of the body and to get to know better this woman whom many feel had a deep holiness. “I...
May 26, 2023 · The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died at age 95 in 2019, was exhumed “roughly four years later” so it can be moved to its final resting place inside a monastery chapel, the Catholic...
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Jun 21, 2023 · Associated Press. People pray over the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles abbey near Gower, Missouri. Pilgrims flocking to see the well-preserved...
