A nun whose body has barely decayed since her death has unintentionally attracted hundreds to the site of her burial in a small US town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People from all over the US traveled to Gower, Missouri, to witness the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster – unexpectedly found intact after being exhumed in April by nuns of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The visitors were able to see and touch her corpse which has hardly decomposed since her burial in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were also allowed to take a teaspoon of dirt from her grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sister Lancaster, a founder of the order, was buried four years ago without any embalming – the act of preserving a corpse by treating it with chemicals – in a plain wooden coffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was exhumed by the monastery in preparation for a new shrine to be installed involving her “reinterment” and was discovered with “a perfectly preserved religious habit”, according to the nunnery’s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 1,800 people flocked to the town after a private email mentioning the news mistakenly went public and the “news began to spread like wildfire”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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