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Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:32 am
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:32 am
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Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think.
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was exhumed in April, according to a statement from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri.
The nuns had been preparing for the addition of a St. Joseph shrine, and that involved “the reinterment of the remains of our beloved foundress, Sister Wilhelmina,” the statement said.
When they exhumed Lancaster, they were told to expect only bones, since she had been buried in a simple wooden coffin without any embalming four years ago.
Instead, they discovered an intact body and “a perfectly preserved religious habit," the statement said. The nuns hadn't meant to publicize the discovery, but someone posted a private email publicly and “the news began to spread like wildfire.”
Volunteers and local law enforcement have helped to manage the crowds in the town of roughly 1,800 people, as people have visited from all over the country to see and touch Lancaster's body.
“It was pretty amazing,” said Samuel Dawson, who is Catholic and visited from Kansas City with his son last week. “It was very peaceful. Just very reverent.”
Dawson said there were a few hundred people when he visited and that he saw many out-of-state cars.
Visitors were allowed to touch her, Dawson said, adding that the nuns “wanted to make her accessible to the public ... because in real life, she was always accessible to people.”
The monastery said in a statement that Lancaster's body will be placed in a glass shrine in their church on Monday. Visitors will still be able to see her body and take dirt from her grave, but they won't be able to touch her.
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Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:35 am to John88
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a Black nun
Why is this relevant. We wuz kangz who don’t decompose or something?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:35 am to John88
Weeeeeeiiiiiiirrrrrrrddddd.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:36 am to John88
I just went to the search function on here and typed the word "nun." I was able to find this exact same story was posted a week ago.
Why were you unable to do this?
Why were you unable to do this?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:36 am to John88
Black don’t crack
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:38 am to John88
Perhaps that is what McDonalds hamburgers are made from, old nuns.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:10 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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I just went to the search function on here and typed the word "nun." I was able to find this exact same story was posted a week ago.
Why were you unable to do this?
he typed "nein" by mistake?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:17 am to John88
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Visitors will still be able to see her body and take dirt from her grave
That’s disgusting.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:17 am to John88
what kind of fricked up person wants to see and touch a dead body that's been dug up, and then calls it peaceful?
This is drawing hundreds, and from out of state? I wouldn't care to see that if it was in a cemetery right off the road on my route home. People are fricking weird.
This is drawing hundreds, and from out of state? I wouldn't care to see that if it was in a cemetery right off the road on my route home. People are fricking weird.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:35 am to John88
Food preservatives are awesome...
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:37 am to John88
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Visitors were allowed to touch her, Dawson said, adding that the nuns “wanted to make her accessible to the public ... because in real life, she was always accessible to people.”
The monastery said in a statement that Lancaster's body will be placed in a glass shrine in their church on Monday. Visitors will still be able to see her body and take dirt from her grave, but they won't be able to touch her.
Not Christianity.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 9:42 am to Areddishfish
True Christianity.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:20 am to Areddishfish
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Not Christianity.
How so?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:26 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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I just went to the search function on here and typed the word "nun." I was able to find this exact same story was posted a week ago.
Why were you unable to do this?
It's vitally important to clear such things before posting.
Thanks for keeping these folks on their toes.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:30 am to John88
My family and I are stopping in Gower to visit Sister Wilhelmina as we make our way up to Ark Encounter for our early summer vacation.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:32 am to John88
why were they exhuming the body? was it specifically to see if she was incorrupt? seems sus if so
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:33 am to John88
Some Japanese buddhist monks practiced self mummification centuries ago. Maybe she did something similar.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:35 am to Areddishfish
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The monastery said in a statement that Lancaster's body will be placed in a glass shrine in their church on Monday.
i kinda hope this screws up whatever is causing the body not to decay
Posted on 5/30/23 at 10:41 am to John88
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last to see a Black nun
This is only mentioned when it's irrelevant to the story but when it's important like identifying a criminal it's almost impossible to get race description out of the media.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 12:26 pm to brett408
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Additionally, after thinking about it, you must be completely anti-Semitic. Meaning that you discount all Jewish influence on the Christian faith
I don’t think you know what that term means. Do yourself a favor and look up “anti-Semitic” in a good dictionary and also look up the term “Semitic”.
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when in fact Jesus is the fulfillment of virtually the entirety of the Old Testament.
This is true but the fulfillment is different for “proto-orthodox” early Roman christianity verses the christianity in Asia Minor to Middle East (Marcionism) to Egypt (Gnosticism).
For the Roman version, Christianity was a continuation of the first temple religion in Jerusalem. The divine king YHWH becomes incarnate in flesh and his blood is shed as a final sin atonement sacrifice to purify and refresh creation and was resurrected and will rule as king on earth.
It’s important to understand the relationship of the Jewish kings to YHWH. It’s too much to type here but you should read up on it. The king was the connection to YHWH. In second temple Judaism created by the Persians, Jews could no longer have a king (because Cyrus was the king). In second temple writings Cyrus of persia is an anointed messiah of YHWH in Isaiah 45:1. Before the Babylonian conquest, the kings of Judah were messiahs. The first temple polytheist religion didn’t just die out when the Persians built the second temple with their new religion in tow. They were alive and well, and it is the first temple religion which evolved into a version of Christianity. The first temple religious practitioners viewed the new Persian-created religious adherents as foreigners and apostates. Who do you think was the real harlot on a hilltop, the whore of Babylon from Christian writings? It’s the second temple, built on a hilltop in Jerusalem, built by the Persians (at the time Babylon was their cultural center).
To the non-Roman early Christians like the Marcionites and Gnostic groups, they too were largely influenced by Jewish religion and the Old Testament. It’s just that they thought that the Old Testament gods (including YHWH) were evil and that Jesus came as the son of the Father (not YHWH) to rescue/redeem/ransom the people from the bloodthirsty YHWH and his minions. YHWH to them was the devil. YHWH demanded blood sacrifices and gave the people “the law” which was evil. Jesus was the final sacrifice to YHWH to rid the people of YHWH and his law.
So yes Judaism, particularly first temple religion, essentially created Christianity. The Second Temple (deny existence of all gods except one) religion around Jesus’ time was incompatible with Christianity (3 or more gods). Second Temple Jews were the antagonists of the Christians, and those Jews never accepted Jesus.
Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament scriptures of the first temple religion, but did it in different ways depending on which group of Christians are considered.
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