Among the saints of the Catholic Church there are those whose bodies are still preserved incorruptible. This phenomenon has not yet been explained in the scientific community. For access, the "incorruptible" pilgrims are placed in special glazed sarcophagi.
Below are the top 10 most famous incorruptible saints of the Roman Church.
1. Saint Bernadette of Lourdes (January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879)
She lived in the town of Lourdes in the south of France. The Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette, there were 18 apparitions in total. Despite the fact that at first the Catholic Church was skeptical about this, later, after a thorough canonical investigation, these phenomena were officially recognized. After her death, Bernadette's body remained incorrupt and Lourdes (and after the city of Nevers, to which the body was transported) soon became one of the main places of pilgrimage, attracting millions of Catholics every year. On December 8, 1933, Bernadette was canonized.
2. Saint John Vianney (8 May 1786 - 4 August 1859)
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He was a French parish priest. Known for his vigorous activities that contributed to the spiritual transformation of society. After death, he was named "the patron saint of priests."
3. Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart (1747-1770)
On March 19, 1934, Pope Pius XI canonized Teresa-Margaret. Before that, she was practically unknown to anyone. She led a quiet and modest life in the monastery of the Carmelites. She died on March 7, 1770 at the age of 22. Two days after the death of Saint Teresa Margaret in 1770 - a nun of the Order of the Sacred Heart - no signs of illness remained on the body of the deceased, which during her lifetime turned it into a swollen purple mass.
4. Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660)
Born in 1581 in a village near Dax into a poor peasant family, Vincent studied theology in Toulouse. In 1600 he was ordained a priest. During one of his trips to the south, he was captured by the Berbers and taken to Tunisia, into slavery. In 1607 he was released and was able to return to his homeland. In 1612 he was appointed rector of a parish near Paris. One of the main merits of Saint Vincent is the creation of a harmonious system of training priests: preseminaries and seminaries. Saint Vincent died in 1660 in Paris. Pope Benedict XIII proclaimed him blessed on August 12, 1729, and Pope Clement XII canonized him on July 16, 1737. The relics of Saint Vincent are kept in a chapel named after him on the rue Sevres in Paris.
5. Saint Silvan
Little is known about this saint, except that he was a martyr for the faith. Considering 1600 years old, it is perfectly preserved.
6. Saint Veronica Giuliani (December 27, 1660 - July 9, 1727)
According to legend, she spoke at the age of 18 months, beginning to reproach the cheating seller with the words: "Show your best side, God sees you!" In 1677, at the age of seventeen, she entered the monastery of the Capuchin sisters. In the monastery, I went through all the steps of the monastic hierarchy, from the cook to the abbess. In 1694 she experienced mystical revelations. Three years later, on April 5, 1697, during Good Friday, she developed stigmata. After this event, at the request of the confessors, she began to keep a spiritual diary, which after her death was more than twenty-two thousand pages. In this diary, she described her mystical experience of absolute union with Jesus Christ. On July 9, 1727, she died after a long illness.
7. Saint Zita (c. 1212 - 27 April 1272)
At the age of 12, she began serving at the Fatinelli family home. For a long time, employers overloaded the girl with work, despised her simple origins, and often beat her. Zita's constant piety and patience led the Fatinelli family to Christian conversion. Zita considered her work to be a calling from God and an element of personal repentance. Zita passed away at the age of 60 after serving 48 years to the Fatinelli family. After her death, members of this family began to venerate Zita as a saint. In 1580 her body was exhumed and it turned out that the relics of Saint Zita are incorruptible. They were transferred to the Basilica of St. Frediano in the city of Lucca, where they are now kept.
8. Saint Don Bosco (August 16, 1815 - January 31, 1888)
He was an Italian priest, educator and teacher. To realize his plans for working with youth, Bosco founded the monastic society of St. Francis de Sales (now known as Don Bosco Salesians
9. Blessed Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 - February 7, 1878)
He went down in history as the Pope, who proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and convened the I Vatican Council, which dogmatically approved the doctrine of the inerrancy of the Roman high priest. The pontificate of Pius IX is the longest in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, after the Apostle Peter. It lasted 31 years, 7 months and 22 days.
10. Blessed Pope John XXIII (November 25, 1881 - June 3, 1963)
The 261st Pope convened the II Vatican Council, but did not live to see its end. As a matter of fact, not completely imperishable, for after death he was embalmed.