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The odour of sanctity, according to the Catholic Church, is commonly understood to mean a specific scent (often compared to flowers) that emanates from the bodies of saints, especially from the wounds of stigmata. These saints are called myroblytes [1] [2] [3] while the exudation itself is referred to as myroblysia [4] or myroblytism.
A myroblyte (/ ˈ m ɪ r ə b l aɪ t /; 'whose relics produce myron'; [1] from Byzantine Greek μυροβλύτης, muroblútēs, Latin: myroblyta; Church Slavonic ...
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An Odor of Sanctity (1965) Goat Song (1967) Judas, My Brother (1968) Speak Now (1969) The Dahomean (1971, later published as The Man from Dahomey) The Girl From Storeyville (1972) The Voyage Unplanned (1974) Tobias and the Angel (1975) A Rose for Ana Maria (1976) Hail the Conquering Hero (1977) A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest (1979)
Mother Mariana of the Purification [1] (November 5, 1623 in Lisbon – December 8, 1695 in Beja) was a nun of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance who, having been born in Lisbon, Portugal, and lived and professed her religious vows at the Carmelite Convent of Our Lady of Hope in Beja, Portugal, died with the odor of sanctity.
Believers hold that, from her youth, Maria Esperanza lived a life of virtue and fidelity to God and received the gifts of supernatural knowledge, healing, visions, discernment of spirits, locution, ecstasy, levitation, the odor of sanctity, the stigmata, and the ability to read the hearts of others. [5]
Articles relating to myroblyte saints, Christian saints from whose relics or burial place "an aromatic liquid with healing properties" known as the Oil of Saints, "is said to have flowed, or still flows", or from whose body emanates a scent known as the odor of sanctity.
As a result, it teaches that the beatific vision is not natural (like a feeling, thought, dream, idea, desire, or mental image), indirect (like an apparition, locution, voice of God, Tabor light, odor of sanctity, religious ecstasy, or some other private revelation), mediate (involving a mediator between God and oneself, like how people saw ...