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A nun whose exhumed body showed nearly no signs of decomposition four years after she died is drawing thousands of Catholics hoping to witness the alleged “miracle” to the sister’s rural Missouri ...
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Thousands of people from around the country have traveled to the small town of Gower, Missouri, after it was discovered that the body of a nun who died there four years ago had not decomposed for the ...
Her flashlight was dim, so when Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell first peered inside the cracked coffin lid and saw a human foot inside a black sock where one would expect to find only bone and dust, she ...
The body of a Benedictine nun has remained uncorrupted for four years following her burial. Leaders in the Catholic Church contacted Rome and commissioned an investigation into the situation after the ...
The small rural Missouri town of Gower has become an unexpected pilgrimage destination after a nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition — four years after her burial. Hundreds of ...
Hundreds of pilgrims have descended on a Benedictine monastery for religious sisters in rural Missouri in recent days after news began to spread on social media last week that the recently exhumed ...
The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have opened a new location at St. Mary’s Abbey in Colwich, Staffordshire, England. The Benedictines became well known after the body of their founder, ...