Sep 30, 2016 · The undeniably beautiful 130-year-old body of Bernadette Soubirous is displayed in a purpose-built crystal coffin, housed in a chapel at the abbey where she served as a nun.

Today, the body of St. Bernadette, still incorrupt, lies in the main chapel of the Convent of St. Gildard in Nevers, France. A constant stream of pilgrims visits the saint's resting place to seek her intercession.

Feb 11, 2019 · Thirty years after her death, the body of St. Bernadette was found in a remarkable state of preservation. Incorruptibility is a tricky subject. The preservation or decay of human remains can be...

Jan 7, 2017 · The body of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the mystic who was visited by Our Lady of Lourdes, was exhumed three times and was found incorrupt everytime.

Dec 26, 2023 · The undeniably beautiful 130-year-old body of Bernadette Soubirous is on display in a specially designed crystal coffin in a chapel in the abbey where she was a nun. Her eerily realistic face, clad in a nun's robe, is one of the most common illustrations of incorruptible saints whose bodies never decay.

Today, the body of St. Bernadette, still incorrupt, lies in the main chapel of the Convent of St. Gildard in Nevers, France. A constant stream of pilgrims visits the saint's resting place to seek her intercession.

Oct 29, 2009 · One of the most well-known of the incorruptible saints is St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes. St. Bernadette died in 1879 in Nevers, France and her body was exhumed in 1909 and found to be completely incorrupt and free of odor 30 years later.

Oct 11, 2017 · When Bernadette’s coffin was opened in 1909, 30 years after her death, the examiners found her body incorrupt. She was found incorrupt yet again in 1919 and 1929.

May 5, 2019 · Over the course of the next 46 years, Saint Bernadette’s body was exhumed no less than three times: the first time in 1909, then again in 1919 and finally in 1925. At the first exhumation, it was quickly evident that a miracle had taken place; Saint Bernadette’s skin tone was perfectly natural.

In 1925 her body was exhumed and was found to be incorrupt. It is now in a crystal coffin in the convent chapel. More on the Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes HERE. Since 3rd August 1925, following her beatification, Bernadette’s body lies in a glass shrine in the chapel of the convent of Saint- Gildard in Nevers.