{"id":1939559,"date":"2023-05-27T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/startling-discovery-made-after-missouri-nuns-body-is-exhumed-faithful-proclaim-a-miracle-has-taken-place-in-us\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:11:16","slug":"startling-discovery-made-after-missouri-nuns-body-is-exhumed-faithful-proclaim-a-miracle-has-taken-place-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/startling-discovery-made-after-missouri-nuns-body-is-exhumed-faithful-proclaim-a-miracle-has-taken-place-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri nun&#8217;s exhumed body leads to miraculous discovery."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstartling-discovery-made-after-missouri-nuns-body-is-exhumed-faithful-proclaim-a-miracle-has-taken-place-in-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Miracle in Missouri: Nun&#8217;s Body Found Intact Four Years After Death<\/h2>\n<p>A rural Missouri town has become a destination for pilgrims after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-members-want-natl-guard-to-go-home-new-theory-about-capitol-riots\/\" title=\"GOP members want Natl Guard to go home, new theory about Capitol riots\">reports emerged<\/a> that the body of a nun who founded a Roman Catholic order shows no signs of decay four years after her death.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri, was exhumed for final placement in the chapel of the abbey, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/254384\/a-miracle-in-missouri-body-of-benedictine-sisters-foundress-thought-to-be-incorrupt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The body was found intact, despite a split in the wooden coffin in which she was buried. Hundreds have come to see the seemingly miraculous sight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary Queen of the Apostles in Missouri was being moved to the order\u2019s chapel and was found in a preserved state.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n<p>You have been born anew, not from perishable but from\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B2Q7tK14l9\">pic.twitter.com\/B2Q7tK14l9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Pearson (@_gidDy_Up_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_gidDy_Up_\/status\/1661087975373979674?\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Testimony to Faith and Hope<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vatican-investigating-possible-miracle-us-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miracle<\/a>,\u201d said Tanya Schultz, who drove eight hours from Kentucky to see Sister Wilhelmina\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer habit is still completely intact. \u2026 I just thought God is so good. He is giving the sisters hope,\u201d said Beth Vogel, a frequent visitor to the abbey, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/hundreds-flock-to-gower-missouri-to-witness-sister-wilhelmina-lancasters-body-believed-to-be-incorrupt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSHB-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople still have such a desire and a yearning to touch and be around God in any way possible,\u201d Kimberly Alshahri said. \u201cGod does give us these precious gifts \u2026 but when there\u2019s one here, you gotta come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had the grace of God pouring through her to the point that her body is incorruptible and showing that there is an afterlife,\u201d Deborah Heffley said of Sister Wilhelmina. \u201cThere are so many coincidences that I don\u2019t think are coincidences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As explained by the Catholic News Agency, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/catholic-group-announces-massive-action-la-dodgers-team-invites-anti-christian-hate-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic Church<\/a> venerates many \u201cincorruptible saints\u201d whose bodies do not experience the normal rate of decay. In Catholic tradition, the lack of decay is considered a sign of holiness.<\/p>\n<h3>A Mystery to Morticians<\/h3>\n<p>Jack Klein, the owner of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/14-portable-morgues-headed-to-central-fla-amid-covid-surge\/\" title=\"14 portable morgues headed to Central Fla. amid COVID surge\">local funeral home<\/a> who was present at Sister Wilhelmina\u2019s burial, said her body was not embalmed, according to another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/254434\/morticians-sister-wilhelmina-lancaster-preserved-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Catholic News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Klein said he \u201ccan\u2019t understand\u201d the state the body is in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the body was not embalmed, and it was still intact after four years, that one kind of throws me,\u201d said David Hess, associate professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/startling-discovery-made-after-missouri-nuns-body-is-exhumed-faithful-proclaim-a-miracle-has-taken-place-in-us\/\" title=\"Missouri nun's exhumed body leads to miraculous discovery.\">mortuary science department<\/a> at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have expected the body to be decomposed \u2014 maybe not all the way down to bone, but at least severely decomposed.\u201d Hess added that it\u2019s \u201ckind of strange\u201d that the body has no odor.<\/p>\n<h3>A Reminder of Life After Death<\/h3>\n<p>Mother Cecilia, abbess of the community, said that when she led the examination of Sister Wilhemina\u2019s body, she couldn\u2019t believe her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I saw a completely full, intact foot and I said, \u2018I didn\u2019t just see that.\u2019 So I looked again more carefully,\u201d she said, noting that other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/punks-think-easy-target-start-running-realizing-76-year-old-nuns-prayer-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nuns<\/a> cheered when they realized what they had found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was just this sense that the Lord was doing this,\u201d Mother Cecilia said. \u201cRight now we need hope. We need it. Our Lord knows that. And she was such a testament to hope and faith and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that what they discovered is \u201cnot possible. \u2026 God is real. He protected that body and that habit to enkindle our faith, to rekindle it, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-wire-group-of-veterans-rescues-hundreds-of-american-allies-judge-blocks-unvaccinated-mom-from-seeing-son-movie-theaters-consider-vaccine-mandates\/\" title=\"Morning Wire: Group Of Veterans Rescues Hundreds Of American Allies, Judge Blocks Unvaccinated Mom From Seeing Son, Movie Theaters Consider Vaccine Mandates\">bring people back<\/a> to the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sister Wilhelmina\u2019s body will be on display until Monday, when it will be encased in glass near the altar of the abbey chapel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave faith,\u201d Mother Cecilia said. \u201cLife does not end when we take our last breath. It begins. \u2026 And this is the kind of miracle that reminds us of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-revokes-trumps-planned-national-garden-of-american-heroes-monument\/\" title=\"Biden Revokes Trump\u2019s Planned \u2018National Garden Of American Heroes\u2019 Monument\">miraculous story<\/a>! Share it with your friends and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri town has become a pilgrimage site after reports that the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, founder of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, shows no signs of decay four years after her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1939561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[4716,6970,22190,5217,26221,8584,26931],"class_list":["post-1939559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-body","tag-discovery","tag-exhumed","tag-leads","tag-miraculous","tag-missouri","tag-nuns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}