The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati By: Joan Carroll Cruz
Non-Fiction: Religion, 290 pages
Physical Book Count:8
Book Count:24
This book is a collection of all the saints that the author could find that are or were incorruptibles. (Saints whose's bodies did not decay or did not decay at a normal rate given the amount of exposure to the elements and preservation used.) They are arranged by when they lived, and include any information that makes their lack of decay even more amazing. (A number of the bodies were covered with quicklime to stop the smell of decay or to break the body down to bones faster for relics. Other were left out for days without any embalming or were buried with out a casket or in a casket the rotted due to water damage.) There is also a quick bio of each saint's life along with what happened to the body after death.
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