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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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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.
Holy chrism is a mixture of olive oil and balsam, an aromatic resin. Balsam is poured into the oil, which gives it a sweet smell intended to remind those who encounter it of the "odor of sanctity" to which those who are marked with it, are called to strive.
Among those he converted was a certain Alexander, a man of senatorial rank. After having ruled his see for seven or, according to another account, for twenty years, he made Alexander his successor and retired to the desert, whence Cyril had summoned him and there died in the odor of sanctity. [citation needed]