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Hundreds of people have flocked to a monastery in rural Missouri to view a nun’s body which appears to show no signs of decay approximately four years after her death.

In what many have called a miracle, the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died at the age of 95, appears to show no signs of decay after her body was exhumed from the monastery grounds to be moved to her final resting place inside the chapel.

In catholicism, her body is said to be ‘incorrupt’ and even the veil of her habit, which was made from the same material as the coffin’s lining, appears to be perfectly preserved.

Described as a ‘powerful experience’, people have congregated in the small town to come to see the miracle for themselves.

Incorruptibility is a Catholic belief that divine intervention allows some human bodies (specifically saints) to completely or partially avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their holiness.

Not every saint, however, is expected to have an incorruptible corpse. Although believers see incorruptibility as supernatural, it is no longer counted as a miracle in the recognition of a saint.

The Catholic Church will now be conducting an investigation to determine if this is a genuine case of ‘incorruption’.

Check out the video below. It features a dead body, so warn your trigger.

[sources:cnn&wikipedia]