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Science has never successfully answered the question, "Why do some bodies remain incorrupt when others rapidly disintegrate in the natural process of putrefaction?"

The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori 2001

Science has never successfully answered the question, "Why do some bodies remain incorrupt when others rapidly disintegrate in the natural process of putrefaction?"

The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori 2001

There was a trip to France to see something called the incorrupt saint, and possibly a position.

CNN Transcript May 21, 2001 2001

The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and like John Paul is also one step away from sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in 2001; his intact embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay.

There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor Josh Fleet 2011

The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and like John Paul is also one step away from sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in 2001; his intact embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay.

There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor Josh Fleet 2011

I also very much appreciate their vivid imagery, e.g. of St. John's miracles shining forth through the interlocked bolts of his tomb (hmyn for Lauds, 1st stanza) or the likening of the silent accusation of his incorrupt tongue to the crying of the blood of Abel (hmyn for Lauds, 5th stanza).

Hymns of St. John Nepomucene 2009

The next altar on the epistle side is the altar of priests, dedicated to St. John Nepomucene, whose incorrupt tongue in a reliquary is shown in the upper painting (I don't know the technical term in English for this part of the altar; in German it is the "Auszug"), flanked by Saints Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas a Becket.

Neuzelle Abbey 2009

When his shrine was opened three hundred and thirty years after his decease for the canonical recognition, the flesh had disappeared, and one member alone remained incorrupt, the tongue, which thus, still in silence, gave glory to God.

Hymns of St. John Nepomucene 2009

The idea of creating an incorrupt and liberal democracy in the shadows of the Hindu Kush is already absurd.

Let Cameron hasten the end of our absurd Afghan war 2010

Otherwise they think the body would not have been preserved like this, in an incorrupt state, some forty years after he died.

The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010