This checklist may be tremendously extended without a lot analysis or difficulty; nonetheless, it’s no doubt already sufficiently ample, and I have thought it value whereas to deal with the topic of the incorruptibility of the our bodies of saints in some detail, as if in fact, this phenomenon is in itself not to be thought to be proof of sanctity, the preservation of the body of a one who has led a life of heroic advantage when this eminent holiness has been formally and authoritatively acknowledged, may be admitted as a miracle, that’s to say as supernatural. It has been said that the vampire, as a demon reanimates the corpses of totally innocent individuals, however this may be very doubtful and it’s possible that the only bodies thus to be infested and preserved by dark agency are these of individuals who throughout their lives had been distinguished by deeds of no atypical atrocity.
Of these perhaps S. Nicolas of Myra, who lies at Bari, is the most famous. Blood is the very important essence, and even with none actual sucking of blood there is a vampire who can-consciously, or maybe unconsciously-assist his life and re-energize his body by drawing upon the vitality of others. A quantity of blood that had been received in a phial didn’t congeal, but is constantly observed to be still liquid. The face is of a darker color than the rest, since, the veil having fallen over it, and gathered collectively an excellent quantity of dust, it was much worse handled than different components of the physique; nevertheless it is totally entire, so that not even the tip of the nostril has acquired any harm. They did ill in taking them, since the hand that did such nice issues, and that God had left complete, ought for ever to have remained so. An unlimited number of cases have been recorded in which persons who are regular, discover intense pleasure in the considered blood during their sexual relations, although perhaps if blood were actually flowing they may really feel repulsion. It would appear to be Plumröder, who in 1830 was the primary to attract definite consideration to the connexion between sexual passions and blood.
Yepes who wrote in 1614, the yr the Saint was beatified significantly attracts consideration to this fragrant effusion, and later when the remains were again examined it was found that a sheet of truthful linen with which the body had been lined was odorous from the same defluxion. Ribera has left us a minute description of the stays which he examined completely on twenty fifth March, 1588, and his account is so fascinating it will not be impertinent to quote it in full. He afterwards informed Ribera that it was the best sacrifice of himself God had ever referred to as upon him to make. One anxiety I have, lest some day they need to separate it, both on the request of great personages or on the importunity of the monasteries; for in no way should this be performed, but it should stay as God left it, as a testimony of his greatness, and essentially the most pure virginity and admirable sanctity of the Mother Teresa de Jesus.
More than once consideration has been drawn to the fact that there exist parodies of these phenomena, and as incorruptibility is usually hooked up to sanctity so is it a necessary of the very opposite of holiness, the demonism of the vampire. It was this incorruptibility which was the rapid cause of the primary official steps being taken to secure the beatification and canonization of Teresa de Jesus. He simply wouldn’t really feel sexual desire – it was dependent on feeling that emotional closeness first. Having handled so celebrated a case in some element we may very briefly go in evaluate some four or five different cases more premising that these have been selected from a very nice many, one thing at random, and not because they present any remarkable or distinctive phenomena which it wouldn’t be tolerably straightforward to parallel in different accounts. Again the physique of S. Philip Neri, who died twenty fifth May, 1595, was discovered perfectly intact eight months after burial, and was still complete when examined in 1599, 1602, and 1639. Within the cases of two saints who died in 1608, Francis Caracciolo, who expired at Agnone in the Abruzzi, 4th June, 1608; and Andrea Avellino, who was struck down by apoplexy at Naples on 10th November of the same yr, there were seen curious blood phenomena.