Body of St. Teresa of Avila in Almost Perfect Condition 442 Years

Body of St. Teresa of Avila in Almost Perfect Condition 442 Years

For the first time in 110 years, the tomb of St. Teresa of Avila, who died in 1582, was opened to allow medical experts and scientists to examine her remains. Even though she has been encased inside her marble-covered silver coffin for nearly 450 years, her body has not decayed to any noticeable degree. This is remarkable, given that no special effort was made to preserve her body at the time of her death. “Today the tomb of St. Teresa was opene…

Saint Teresa of Avila died in 1582, but was recently decapitated from a church in Spain, and experts were astonished to find that her body did not undergo the usual processes of...

The researchers claimed that the remains are “uncorrupted”, after comparing it to images taken in 1914. “Expert doctors can see Teresa's face almost clearly,” they described from the Church. Read more