Wrap your mind around this!

[Vaudeville]

So, I just found out that My Great Grandfather's cousin (my Grandmother just came to visit so she told me)

Bishop Rafael Guizar y Valencia from Mexico was canonized this year, so I'm related by blood to a saint!

Get what happened, they took his body out of the grave 12 yrs after his death and his body was intact, I saw a pic... crazy.

I think this has the potential to be life changing. :thumb:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/15769247.htm
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20061015_valencia_en.html
http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id755.htm
http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/saintr1k.htm

 

[not really ken]

Where's the pic of his body being taken out 12 years later. Link me, I can't be bothered to look for it.

 

[Vaudeville]

Picture when he died:
http://www.rafaelguizar.org/files/Escanear0028.jpg

Picture 12 years later:
http://www.rafaelguizar.org/files/Escanear0031.jpg

 

[Chronic]

He looks dead.

 

[linx]

He looks dead.

:thumb:

 

[Vaudeville]

obviously, but his body didn't decompose.... think with your brain upstairs

 

[PELLA]

he kinda looks like you Vaude :thumb:

 

[Dante]

obviously, but his body didn't decompose.... think with your brain upstairs

no offense, but thinking that's meaningful is moronic.

corpses decompose at substantially different rates based upon the body itself, preservation technique used, the integrity of the burial chamber, humidity, temperature range, and much more. it's not like god said this guy was ok so i'm going to preserve his body a little longer than everyone else.

 

[SicC]

well not being an expert on dead bodies and decomposing but it looks like a poorly made wax statue.

pz

 

[Illuminattile]

I like his hat.

 

[_carmi]

congrats?

 

[S. Fourteen]

omg photoshopped