When it comes to bodies, just how ‘incorrupt’ is ‘incorruptible’?
A Pillar Explainer
Recent images of a dead nun’s body in Missouri have created a buzz online, amid reports that the religious sister’s body may be incorruptible.
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, was the foundress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. She died in 2019.
When the abbey community at Gower Abbey, outside of Kansas City, exhumed Sister Wilhe…