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Incorruptibility is a Catholic and Orthodox belief that divine intervention allows some human bodies (specifically saints and beati) to completely or partially avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their holiness.
The photos, however, also show a kind of reflection or sheen on the hand surfaces, which makes me wonder whether anything was applied. What does the remainder of the body look like under the clothing?
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Owing to the huge crowd present, the ceremonies associated with the canonization were held outside Saint Peter's Basilica, in the Piazza San Pietro. Pius XII spoke, not as before in Latin, but in Italian. "We order and declare, that the blessed Maria Goretti can be venerated as a Saint and we introduce her into the Canon of Saints".
8 years later and I agree. I would be satisfied if the article linked to stated that the saint's body was incorrupted. And the way the photos are captioned is problematic. E.g. the article on Bernadette says the church authorities said after the first exhumation that the body appeared incorrupt, not that it was incorrupt.
Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. In 1622, Vincent was appointed as chaplain to the galleys .
Santa Santita (released internationally as Magdalena, The Unholy Saint) is a 2004 Filipino film directed by Laurice Guillen. The film stars Angelica Panganiban and Jericho Rosales . It follows Malen, the daughter of an intercessor , her love affair with a hustler and gigolo, and her confrontation of the evil within her life.
But, if you call impassibility and immortality incorruptibility, and say that the body which suffered in the flesh on our behalf was not one that was capable of suffering with voluntary passions and dying in the flesh, you reduce the saving passions on our behalf to a phantasy; for a thing which does not suffer also does not die, and it is a ...