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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 09:49 pm |
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Curious, are there any Protestant believers who have been found to be incorrupt? Or is that we might never know, since they don't tend to exume bodies of their 'heroes' or 'saints'? I tried to ask this in Did You Know? forum, but wasn't allowed to ask a question there without being logged in...?  But, gee...I was already logged in!
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Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 10:02 pm |
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I found this tidbit:
The only Protestant one we know of is Medgar Evers, the slain civil rights leader, but he could have been over embalmed.
On another site I found this:
The slain civil rights worker Medgar Evers was exhumed 28 years after his burial.His youngest son had no memory of his father so requested to see the body.Dr. Michael Baden had him wait outside of the room when they opened the casket because he was afraid the body would be so badly decomposed after so many years.When they opened the casket Evers was perfectly preserved so the son finally got to meet the father he could not remember.
Who knows? I wouldn't rule it out, as there are many holy Protestants.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 10:14 pm |
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| I don't understand this whole idea at all?
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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 10:17 pm |
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| Thanks much, Dave! I knew you'd come through for me on this one. I know some holy Protestants who surely lived holy, pure lives and died holy happy deaths. Oswald Chambers comes to mind and Watchman Nee, Fanny Crosby, the great hymn writer, and C. S. Lewis...to name a few... I'd not be surprised if they were incorrupt.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 03:09 am |
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Prayerie Pal wrote: I tried to ask this in Did You Know? forum, but wasn't allowed to ask a question there without being logged in...? But, gee...I was already logged in!
"Did You Know" is our only restricted access forum. Only moderators can start threads there. When we first set it up, we envisioned it as a sort of "Catholic Trivia" section, or "Everything you always wanted to know about Catholics but didn't know whom to ask". If you look over the topics in that area, it includes things like info on the blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise, blessing of the lambs on the feast of St. Agnes, etc.
It's not for questions but "unsoliticited answers". On several occasions we've accepted posts from users and moved them in there, but they have to be posted elsewhere first. This particular question is really more appropriate in the "Mary and the Saints" forum.
The message you got about being logged in is a generic message that is given to anyone who attempts to post where their access won't let them, so an unregistered visitor who might try to post gets the same message. That's just the way the software works.
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 05:04 am |
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Those of us who sit through long, Protestant sermons often look dead and are found to be incorrupt!  Seriously, I guess it would depend upon how well the mortician did their job! I do think that God may somehow preserve the bodies of some people, such as some of the Saints, incorrupt. I do believe that at the end times, we will all be brought back, our souls being rejoined with our bodies no matter what happened to the bodies. The end times will be a very awesome, amazing time!
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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 03:27 pm |
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Those of us who sit through long, Protestant sermons often look dead and are found to be incorrupt!
Buckles... you crack me up! 
You were the very first laugh I had today getting on line. THANKS!
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Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 03:35 pm |
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Hey Caj,
Thanks for the info on the Did You Know? MOP...Moderators Only Place.
It makes sense to me now. 
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Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 06:24 pm |
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While the Church has always venerated the remains of saints, at various times great value has been placed on the "ownership" of them by a particular church or city. Wars have been fought over such issues. Saints' bodies have sometimes been disinterred to be transferred into a church, or "rescued" from ground in the Middle East that had fallen under Muslim control, or for other reasons. The incorruptibility of some saints' bodies was discovered during such actions.
Not much of that has been done in the last 500 years except in cases where the remains were to be moved. Protestants, of course, do not show the same veneration as Catholics for the remains of the dead, so they are less likely to be transferring them into a church or other sacred space, and are therefore less likely to have exhumed their bodies.
It is not impossible that there may be incorruptables, Catholic and otherwise, who's remains have never been exhumed. We'll never know.
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