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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

Nun’s body intact four years after death draws people to Missouri monastery

a rosary against black cloth
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a monastery in Gower, Missouri. Photograph: Vladimír Šimíček/AFP/Getty Images

Hundreds of people in the US have traveled to a monastery in a small Missouri town to view a nun’s body that seemingly has no signs of decay four years after her death.

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a monastery in Gower, Missouri, about an hour outside of Kansas City.

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