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4 comments:
The reason for this is because of the religious/traditional practice of determining whether or not a person can be declared a Saint or not...
The idea is that if the Pope (or anybody else for that matter) is buried with his organs intact, dug up after about five years, and his body is still intact and has not decayed; this is considered a miracle and thus he can then be declared a Saint.
In other words, you can't be declared a Saint unless you've performed a certain amount of miracles or been dead for a while and your body has not decayed.
This is a Catholic tradition only, if I'm not mistaken.
Hope this helps;)
Really, there is this guy from over 200 years ago that they still have under glass and he looks like he still has not decomposed...or so I have heard.
Thats disgusting...
Air tight for 200 years?
Wow, Ben! Thank you for sharing that. I have never heard this before ---I feel enlightened and a little wierded out at the same time. ;)
--SB
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