After six months, the martyr's body was found to be incorrupt, but his head and left arm were separated from his body.

His incorrupt body was taken from the island in February 1553 and was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on 22 March 1553.

The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".

Innocent XI was subsequently considered by many to be incorrupt, and his body was placed in a glass and bronze-work sarcophagus with his face and hands covered in silver.

He is regarded by many Catholics to be the first Pope whose body was discovered to be incorrupt, followed by Pope St. Pius X ( 1903 – 14 ) and Blessed Pope John XXIII ( 1958 – 63 ).

According to Bede's life of the saint, when Cuthbert's sarcophagus was opened eleven years after his death, his body was found to have been perfectly preserved or incorrupt.

According to the life of Oswald, Edward's body was found to be incorrupt when it was disinterred ( which was taken as a miraculous sign ).

* The Venerable Giorgio Baldassarre Oppezzi, a monk who died in 1525, and whose body was later discovered to be incorrupt, is buried here in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Exhumed in 1935 and again in 1951, Jacinta's face was found incorrupt.

In 1931, her body was exhumed, found to be partially incorrupt and is now enshrined under glass in the altar at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, part of Mother Cabrini High School, at 701 Fort Washington Avenue, in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

The sarcophagus was opened and his body was said to have been found perfectly preserved, or incorrupt.

Exhumed in 1933, her body was judged to be incorrupt by the church, and it now lies in a glass coffin at the side altar of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal ( often simply called by its address, 140 Rue du Bac ), Paris, one of the spots where the Blessed Mother appeared to her.

After his death, his body was claimed to be incorrupt, his beard and hair were trimmed from time to time by his followers ( as was claimed for Saint Cuthbert ).

Although five years had elapsed since Josaphat's death, his body was claimed to still be incorrupt.

27 years after his death, his body was found to be incorrupt.

When Pallotti's body was exhumed in 1906 and 1950, examiners found his body to be completely incorrupt ( see Dr. Gaynor's book ), a sign of holiness in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.

There are a great number of eastern Orthodox saints whose bodies have been found to be incorrupt and are in much veneration among the faithful.

The Catholic Church adopted this date as a Holy Day of Obligation to commemorate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the real physical elevation of her sinless soul and incorrupt body into Heaven.

* Sanctuary of Montevergine, where the incorrupt body of Saint Eustochia Smeralda Calafato is preserved.

On May 14, 1846, during the construction of the new cathedral at Zadonsk, Saint Tikhon's relics were uncovered and were found to be incorrupt.

At the Chapel of Saint Bernadette at the mother house of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, it is possible to view the incorrupt remains of Bernadette Soubirous ( Saint Bernadette ) which are presented in a gold and crystal reliquary.

The body of Saint John Mary Vianney wearing a wax mask, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Saint Zita, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church

The body of Virginia Centurione Bracelli | Saint Virginia Centurione, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

* Saint Alexander of Svir — the incorrupt relics of the saint were removed from the Svir Monastery by the Bolsheviks on December 20, 1918 after several unsuccessful attempts to confiscate them.

The body of Bernadette Soubirous | Saint Bernadette of Lourdes with wax face and hand coverings, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of John Vianney | Saint John Mary Vianney wearing a wax mask, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Pio of Pietrelcina | Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina wearing a silicone mask, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Alphonsus Maria de Liguori | Saint Alphonse Mary of Liguori, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Joaquina Vedruna de Mas | Saint Joaquina de Vedruna, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Zita | Saint Zita, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Catherine Labouré | Saint Catherine Labouré, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Louise de Marillac | Saint Louise de Marillac, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

The body of Luigi Orione | Saint Luigi Orione, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

His incorrupt relics were found in 1422 and placed in the new Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra which he founded.

After many years his body was found to be incorrupt and his relics were translated to a more splendid shrine at St. Duthus Collegiate Church built between 1370 and 1458.

Since her death, Soubirous's body has apparently remained internally incorrupt, but it is not without blemish ; during her third exhumation in 1925, the firm of Pierre Imans made light wax coverings for her face and her hands due to the discoloration that her skin has undergone.

According to Joan Carroll Cruz, his body is incorrupt.

* The Incorruptibles, a list of Catholic saints and beati whose bodies are reported to be incorrupt ; that is, the bodies did not undergo any major decay after their burial and hence are considered to be under some form of divine protection.

The remains of the prince were uncovered in response to a vision, before the Battle of Kulikovo in the year 1380, and found to be incorrupt.

An incorrupt corpse is no longer considered miraculous, but it is a characteristic of several known saints.

His heart is still incorrupt, and is displayed in a reliquary in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity in Paris.

In 1562, a mob of Huguenots in France broke open his tomb and found his body incorrupt.