- The small rural Missouri town of Gower has become an unexpected pilgrimage destination after a nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition — four years after her burial.
- Hundreds of people have been flocking to the town 40 miles north of Kansas City to marvel at the well-preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, with many calling it a “miracle in Missouri.”
- Lancaster, when she was 70, founded the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles.
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A car passes in front of illuminated cross above of 12th century monastery "Panagia Chrisospiliotissa" carved out of the side of a cliff in Deftera on the outskirts of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, April 17, 2020. This year the liturgical services at the Christians Orthodox Church of Easter celebrations on Holy Friday commemorating a procession the "Epitaphios" - Christ being lowered from the cross and being prepared for burial, will take place without worshippers due to the lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
