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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Why are thousands of people clamouring to see the body of a Missouri nun who died four years ago?

AP

The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, had just finished digging up a body when they made a startling discovery.

Though removing a body from its final resting place is typically seen as taboo — even among the secular — the sisters of the Queen of Apostles had holy intentions; they wanted to move the remains of their founder, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died in 2019, into their new monastery in Gower, Missouri.

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