What is inviolability?

violation is the inability of some human bodies to decompose after death. The term comes from the Catholic Church, which considered this phenomenon to be the sign of the Holy in the Middle Ages. However, the Catholic Church no longer uses these criteria for canonization, although the bodies of some inviolable saints are still exposed and visited by believers. In other cultures, the inviolability may be a sign of evil rather than holiness, suggesting that the deceased is a vampire. Although the inviolability has never been sufficiently explained, some people believe it is an imperfectly understood scientific phenomenon. The violated bodies were Coves medieval era appeared very powerful relics and often placed on the display in large glass relics in churches, where many remain today. The impaable body does not resemble a living body precisely, because the skin is usually faded and dried to some extent, so some invarious saints are improved by wax masks.

It is important to realize that inviolability is different from natural mummification that can occur, for example, a corpse in a marshy environment. Also, a corpse that has undergone any type of balsle may not be marked as inviolable. It does not seem to be of incomprehensibility caused by unusual types of soil, temperatures or other funeral conditions. Some invarious bodies were buried next to the corpses that broke down normally, and others had clothes that disintegrated while the body remained intact.

In the religious tradition, it is often called inviolability accompanied by other supernatural phenomena, including the sweet fragrance known as the odor of sacredness, lack of strict mortis, stigmas or martyrs that continue to bleed, physical heat long after death and even movement. However, such cases are much less well documented than the inviolability itself. Some of the inviolable saints radiated sweet -fragrant oil known as "oil of saints" about ktErém is assumed that they have miraculous healing forces.

The scientific phenomenon is sometimes considered to be a detergent in which the body fats are converted into adipocere, a soap similar to a substance. Saponification is more likely to occur in corpses with a large amount of fat and alkaline soils and many bodies experience it to some extent, but not in the extent of maintaining the observed in intact. However, the indisputable, which is known to the Catholic Church, are not particularly fat, and as mentioned above, the soil does not seem to be a significant factor.