Thousands were flocking to Missouri over Memorial Day weekend to view – and possibly touch – the preserved body of an exhumed Catholic nun before she is interred in a glass case for display at the abbey she founded.
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died in 2019 at the age of 70, was the founder of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, established in rural Gower in 1995. Her remains were exhumed last month in preparation for construction of a planned St Joseph Shrine to her within the abbey’s oratory.
