It is said that she would have died “
in the odor of holiness
”: the consecrated expression is here to be taken in the first and original sense.
In Christianity, certain great saints are said to have miraculously escaped the corruption of the flesh after their death, like Saint Padre Pio or Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (whose remains, it is said, even exhaled sweet perfumes) .
Thus Pauline Jaricot, a pious 19th century Lyonnaise who devoted her life to prayer and works of charity, is at the heart of a strange "
miracle
": since her death in 1862, her heart has remained in an exceptional state of preservation. , inside a reliquary (a cardiotaphe) that the faithful come to venerate at the Saint-Polycarpe church.
A molecular biology expertise has just been carried out on this relic, without succeeding in lifting the mystery surrounding Pauline Jaricot: the work of the researchers has not, at this stage, detected any evidence that would contradict Christian hagiography.
Moreover…
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