Missouri miracle? Hundreds travel to see nun’s exhumed,
‘incorrupt’ body
Story by Jacob Kittilstad • 1h ago
Missouri miracle? Hundreds travel to see nun’s exhumed,
‘incorrupt’ body
Missouri miracle? Hundreds travel to see nun’s exhumed,
‘incorrupt’ body
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GOWER, Mo. – Catholic faithfuls are making the
pilgrimage to Gower, Missouri, to witness what they
describe as a miracle.
“It’s great to be reminded that it can happen in our
lifetime,” one person said.
“She’s a Saint already. I already have her canonized,”
another said.
“We drove in like a 3-hour drive and walked straight
into mass,” another woman in the group said.
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These statements are from just some of the hundreds
traveling to the Benedictine monastery in Gower, a
small town about an hour north of Kansas City.
The focus is a body revealed to have no signs of decay
four years after burial.
In the words of the sisters, it is “incorrupt.” The
word incorrupt lends special meaning to Catholics as it
signals a possible path to sainthood.
The person at the center of the attention is Sister
Wilhelmina Lancaster, who is described as the African
American foundress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary,
Queen of the Apostles.
The sisters told the Catholic News Agency that after
her death she was buried but not embalmed.
After four years, the sisters recently exhumed the body
in a ceremony. The sisters expected to find bones in
her cracked wooden coffin, but instead they found her
looking not so different from when she went it.
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On Tuesday, license plates from Arkansas, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and even Pennsylvania in the drive to the
Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus showed how far people were
driving to visit.
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