Incorruptibles - Joan Caroll Cruz Blessed Mother Their exemplary lives left a

Their exemplary lives left a deep impression upon the author

author of the best-selling book No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy

She reproaches him for his dissolute life and begs him to have Masses said in her name

As he guides modern-day readers through passages filled with mysteries and poetry

Incorruptibles - Joan Caroll Cruz Blessed Mother Their exemplary lives left aContinuously popular since it first appeared in 1977, The Incorruptibles remains the acknowledged classic on the bodies of saints that did not undergo decomposition after death, many remaining fresh and flexible for years, or even centuries. After explaining both natural and artificial mummification, the author shows that the incorruption of the saints' bodies fits into neither category but constitutes a much greater phenomenon which is unexplained by