Sister Lancaster passed away in 2019 at the age of 95
The body is being exhumed for the burial… Found intact, free from decay
In a miraculous phenomenon… More than 10,000 pilgrims per day
A nun’s body did not decompose even after four years, which is called the ‘Miracle of Missouri’, and tens of thousands of pilgrims visit a convent in the United States every day.
According to the New York Post on the 29th (local time), Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster passed away at the age of 95 in 2019 at the ‘Benedictines Sisters’ of the Benedict Maria Sisters near Kansas City, which straddles Missouri and Kansas in the midwestern United States. However, four years later, as it became known that his body was found intact and not decomposed, the number of pilgrims, which was only a few hundred, has now increased to more than 10,000 a day.
At the time of her death in 2019, Sister Lancaster, the founder of the Sisters of Benedictine Mary, was buried without special embalming.
Following tradition, the Benedictine Sisters exhumed the body of a Lancastrian nun to be moved beneath the foundation of the convent chapel. In the process, a mummy-like body was found that was intact and not decayed.
A nun who requested anonymity said, “Since Sister Lancaster was buried in a wooden coffin without special embalming, I naturally thought that only the bones remained. He was looking the same as when we buried him in the ground,” she revealed.
Another nun said, “Eyelashes, hair, eyebrows, nose, and lips were all normal.” “Also, his lips were smiling.”
News of the unbelievable miracle spread widely through social media, and the New York Post reported that between 10,000 and 15,000 people a day are now visiting the convent to see the body.
The Sisters will move the body of Sister Lancaster from the chapel to a glass coffin to preserve it.
Source: Donga
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