Moreover, the Vatican looks for virtue of person's life and works before officially declaring them a saint. Home to the webs creepiest and most mysterious stories, for fans of true crime, horror, and the paranormal. By Lorenzo Jensen III , May 19th 2016. This Ming dynasty mummy was found in a water-logged coffin on a construction site in China in 2011! However, there have been people throughout history whose bodies have stubbornly refused to decompose as expected. exhumed bodies in perfect condition. Oswalds widow also consented, eager to settle the matter. This is just a short list of the incorrupt saints. He tried hard in school, with his friends, [and] he loved computers. Pope Francis cuts free and discounted rent for cardinals, Vatican managers, Bishop Paprocki pens essay imagining heretical cardinals, quoting San Diegos McElroy, Order of cloistered nuns leaves Nicaragua after 22 years, Survivor of Turkey earthquake: God protected me and the Virgin Mary did not leave me, Muslim-Muslim ticket proclaimed winner of Nigerias presidential election amid protests. The family sought to have the body exhumed in May and found that four bodies were buried at the loved one's . It exhibits a waxy condition of the face called adipocere or "corpse wax," described thusly in Wikipedia: "a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. St. Vincent de Paul died on Sept. 27, 1660. From the very beginning (of the exhumation) you could clearly see his beard. True believers say the curse of the pharaohs is responsible for the premature deaths of several members of the team that cracked open King Tuts tomb. [CDATA[// >