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Post by homeschooldad on May 23, 2023 3:57:36 GMT
Catholics probably wouldn't be too shocked by this, but just to warn the reader, the CM article has a close-up picture of a dead body and another picture with the hands in some state of decomposition. We must come across as really freaky to Protestants. Sometimes I think of Catholicism as "the Addams Family of Christianity". www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/benedictine-founder-exhumedcatholickey.org/2019/06/06/sister-mary-wilhelmina/She was a TLM adherent. I wonder if anyone would be willing to call her an "indietrist" (an anglicized Italian word meaning "backwardist") with a "nostalgic disease". |
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Post by tth1 on May 23, 2023 12:05:19 GMT
I'm not clear from the articles. Is she being buried in this new chapel or actually in the altar?
I had understood that altars could only contain the relics of saints. As there has not even been a cause begun for her canonisation I don't understand how she can be buried in an altar, if, indeed, that's what's planned.
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Post by homeschooldad on May 23, 2023 13:49:58 GMT
I'm not clear from the articles. Is she being buried in this new chapel or actually in the altar? I had understood that altars could only contain the relics of saints. As there has not even been a cause begun for her canonisation I don't understand how she can be buried in an altar, if, indeed, that's what's planned. I don't know, but it might be a situation similar to St Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Her relics are in the altar at the shrine there, and it is her resting place. I don't know if not being canonized a saint yet would create any difficulty. This may not be the case anymore, but relics were once available of St Elizabeth, at the shrine for a small donation, and I have one in my home oratory, displayed with other relics for veneration. |
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Post by tisbearself on May 24, 2023 0:27:30 GMT
St Elizabeth Ann Seton is interred under an altar in a side chapel. It is not the main one used for most Masses, although that one might have a relic of her in it.
The article from CNA on Sister Wilhelmina says she will be encased in glass near an altar, not in an altar.
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Post by homeschooldad on May 24, 2023 12:07:00 GMT
St Elizabeth Ann Seton is interred under an altar in a side chapel. It is not the main one used for most Masses, although that one might have a relic of her in it. The article from CNA on Sister Wilhelmina says she will be encased in glass near an altar, not in an altar. Yes, that is correct, I once attended Mass offered on that side chapel's altar. |
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