Declan Fox wrote:folks, not doctors.
> Rationale goes back to the days of fond belief in saints and in good
> ordinary folks sometimes being canonised. I always heard that one of
> the criteria for sainthood was that the body had to be exhumed and
> show no signs of decay. Not sure how formalin comes into the equation,
> I'm no expert on this. But anyway, if a body got cremated, that
> buggered up that person's chance of ever being canonised.
Given the tendency of saints to have been martyred, it is strange and
seems unfair if none of them were burnt.
A quick Google gives:-
Bl. John Maki (Japanese, layman, martyred by burning in 1627 at Nagasaki)
Bl. Thomas Tsugi (Japanese, Jesuit priest, martyred by burning at Nagasaki)
for 7 September.
It all seems very disturbing.
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