Adrian Midgley wrote:
> 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.
>>
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> 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)
>
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> for 7 September.
>
> It all seems very disturbing.
>
Sometimes google misses the obvious candidates
How about Joan of Arc?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
"After she expired, the English raked back the coals to expose her
charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive, then
burned the body twice more to reduce it to ashes and prevent any
collection of relics."
Jeff
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