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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.
“Incorruptibility” — when a body shows little or no signs of decay after death — was thought of as an indicator of holiness in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches for centuries.
Statue to Saint Juliana in Dubrovytsia. Juliana Olshanskaya was the daughter of Prince Yurii (also Georgy) Dubrovitsky-Olshansky of the Olshanski family who ruled part of modern Ukraine. [1] [2] Her father was a benefactor of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, and Juliana was said to be highly religious. She died in the summer of her 16th year ...
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In the Catholic Church, traditionally the resurrected body is called the "glorified body", and retained four characteristics: incorruptibility, subtlety, impassibility, and agility. The bodies of the damned are also raised incorrupt, but not glorified or free from suffering.
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 ...
The issue of the incorruptibility of Vissarion's remains caused a tumult within the scientific community in Greece. The coroner, Nikos Karakoukis, spoke about the possibility of a natural mummification because of the place in which Vissarion's body was buried. More specifically, as Karakoukis and other medical examiners said, the lack of oxygen ...
incorruptibility, freedom from decay, or impassibility, freedom from pain and the passions, deriving from the perfect submission of the body to the soul [6] [7] clarity or glory : the bodies of saints will reflect the light, the inner splendor of the soul, therefore, in the body they will conform to the Incarnate Word; [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]