… sounds like a movie title, doesn’t it?

Have you ever been looking something up on, say, Wikipedia, and then you follow a link, and another link, and another link, and so on and so forth, and you end up reading about something you never expected to ever read about in your life?

Yeah. I was chatting with DJ last night and she was privy to this all as it went down.

I started out looking up olives. Don’t ask why, I just did. Somehow, I ended up learning about corpses that weren’t embalmed (not like Lenin or Eva Peron – they were embalmed), but didn’t decompose. In the Catholic church, they’re called “The Incorruptibles”. I won’t get into explanations (it’s fascinating reading if you want to look it up yourself) but I am now obsessed with looking up photos of them on the Internet. Which can’t be healthy.

(I’m going to post a photo or two after the jump. Please don’t go looking if this kind of thing freaks you out.)

born Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France. Died 1879. After her death, Bernadette?s body remained ?incorruptible?.

(the thing here is that they have make-up on her, it’s been admitted, to protect from the lights and stuff).

Died c. 350. Little is known about Silvan except that he was martyred.

I think the most realistic one though is Zita. Because they didn’t put any makeup or anything on her and she looks like a mummy.