Americans traveling to Missouri town after nun's body found 'incorrupt' four years after burial
The town of Gower, Missouri, is being flooded with visitors from all over the country.
They wanted to get close to the body of a nun that was just exhumed.
On a usual Wednesday in the town, which is outside of Kansas City, there are peaceful sounds at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Monastery.
This Wednesday, those sounds have been replaced by the sounds of hundreds of people coming to view the body of its founder.
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster died in 2019 and her sisters buried her on the grounds there.
When they exhumed her body to place it in a final resting place inside the chapel, they expected to find bones.
Instead, they found her body remarkably preserved.
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Mary Thoelke drove to Gower, Missouri from North Dakota.
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