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Back in eighth grade, Lily Myers chose Mother Teresa for her patron saint for confirmation. Now 20 and going into her junior year at Kansas State University, Myers said most of the saints she has studied existed in “older times.” But this week, she joined other Catholics who have traveled to a Benedictine monastery in the small town of Gower to see what many are calling a miracle. The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles believe that Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who founded the religious community in 1995, is the first African American woman to be found “incorrupt” — or not decomposed after death. The discovery was made after her body was recently exhumed so it could be moved to an altar inside the church. The church has not yet determined whether Sister Wilhelmina’s case is miraculous or ruled it an “incorruptible,” the Catholic News Agency reported, and a cause for her canonization has not been sanctioned. But the sisters in her religious community and those travelin...
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