Science has always been side by side with faith when it comes to explaining mystical phenomenons and miracles in the catholic church. Fact is, the more atheist the scientist, the more the Church employ them in various investigations. This is done so that there will be no bias when it comes to results. In cases of miracles, medical scientists are asked to explain any specific and detail explanation of such occurrence. Only when science cannot render any rational and valid scientific explanation does the church explain events as supernatural in origin.
With the case of the Incorrupt Bodies, many scientists has already investigated and examined the said bodies. Most if not all, the bodies of the saints’ incorruptibility were documented and declared as “unexp[lainableâ€. Like in the case of some incorrupt bodies that has been found in moist and flooded grounds, these bodies should have been decomposed immediately but the mysterious thing is, the body’s integrity remains intact and undefiled.
When a human body dies, it undergoes eight verifiable signs and symptoms of death. They are:
- Ceasing breathing
- The body no longer metabolizes
- No pulse
- Pallor mortis (paleness which happens in the 15–120 minutes after death)
- Livor mortis (a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body)
- Algor mortis (the reduction in body temperature following death. This is generally a steady decline until matching ambient temperature)
- Rigor mortis (the limbs of the corpse become stiff (Latin rigor) and difficult to move or manipulate)
- Decomposition (the reduction into simpler forms of matter, accompanied by a strong, unpleasant odor).From these signs and symptoms, 5 are the most commonly defied laws in the incorrupt bodies
Pallor mortis in the Incorruptible bodies as sometimes absent. In the case of some saints, the bodies appear fresh, rosy and seemingly just sleeping.
Livor mortis also is defied in the Incorruptibles wherein most of the blood and body fluids that should have been settled on the dependent part of the body is absent. In fact,
in some Incorrupt bodies, uncoagulated blood is still flowing from wounds, fluids exudating and oils being excreted from the skin.
Absence of Algor Mortis has also been reported in some incorrupt bodies. The bodies were still warm at the instant of the discovery despite and in spite of several years of being dead.
One of the most extraordinary characteristics of most, if not all Incorruptibles is the absence of Rigor Mortis or the stiffness of the body. When the body dies, muscle contracts because of lack of oxygen. Yet the Incorruptibles has supernaturally maintained the flexibility of limbs after years of being deceased. Most notable examples are the bodies of St. Bernadette Soubirous and St. Catherine Laboure, both visionaries of separate two apparitions in France. Their bodies, up to this day is still soft to the touch and flexible.
And last natural signs of bodily death that is defied by the incorruptibles is the decomposition. In a decomposing body, unpleasant odor often accompanies the body.
But in the Incorruptibles, odor of flowers, mostly roses are evident to the sensation as witnessed and testified by some people present during the death, after the death and after the body is exhumed. In fact, some bodies up to this day if not odorless, still manifests a pleasant odor, contrary to the normal rotting odor that a common human body is capable of. This separate Mystical phenomenon which always accompany the incorruptibles is said to be the
“Odor of Sanctity†where in the pureness and holiness of the soul of the saint is physically manifested through sweet scents of flowers and unearthly pleasant aroma.
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