The body of Saint Bernadette in its large glass display case. Below you see the two Bernadette's the original one and the other from the wax museum. Where they made her much prettier than before and gave her a nose job! People fall for this....People love to be fooled.
Two pictures of the same person..Both pictures are of the dead woman. But the first it without the plastic surgery she seems to have received... We talk of how natural she looks.
But this is a wax face. Not her face. Look at her nose in the b/w photo you will notice a bump in the nose. In the new face there is no bump and she has a cuter nose than before. Also she had her eyebrows done. and her lips are bigger than before as well as her whole mouth. Even her chin is more pronounced now. Her hands are wax as well... I think it is nice to have to see...I find it fascinating to look at........But it is not real.
But using the same idea system that because she did not rot she is a saint...Then the same could be said of Lincoln, Washington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, who were all nearly perfectly preserved when exhumed most after 30 years or more. ...
It is stated that there were no preservatives used to preserve her body. that is not true....
The body was packed with charcoal and sawdust and in a double coffin. Well on the way to become a natural mummy.Basically, this is the technology to make pork legs into ham. From the accounts of the time it sounds like Bernadette was placed into an artificial peat bog........
So there were attempts to make the body survive. The official notes of the time state that her eyes were sunken in and her nose had basically shrunk away...So she did not look too good. She was basically made into a mummy. the hands and face you see now are not really hers..........They just made her look cute...
Just a wax idea of what she should look like. So that tells me that this is nice, but not much more than that. ...Incorruptibles should mean just that...Not having to make wax faces for people who do not rot....For if they did not...You would not have to use a mask. History should be honest. In religion even more so........
Well it is a great tourist attraction and makes a lot of money for the church and local region that is there. .....
That's show biz!