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Interesting. Possibly more old Oirish myths?? I really must check this out in more detail! Declan <<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.>>