A Benedictine monastery in the small town of Gower, Mo., is being inundated with calls and visitors since word has spread that the recently exhumed remains of its founder who died four years ago are remarkably preserved.
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The cracked coffin that held the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster had “high levels of condensation,” the Catholic News Agency reported. “Despite the dampness, little of her body and nothing of her habit disintegrated during the four years.”
A pilgrim venerates the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 20, 2023. Lancaster was recently exhumed in Gower, Missouri. / Credit: Kelsey Wicks/CNA
Gower, Missouri, May 22, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).
Hundreds of pilgrims have.