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Beberapa foto pemuka agama yang diawetkan sebagai mummy. There are a number of places in the world, most of them religious, that display the dead in one way or another for the edification of any visitor with a strong stomach and the price of admission.

Some of these sites result from a phenomenon that has naturally mummified the dead, while others consist of artful arrangements of bones and skulls done by a creative monk in his spare time.

In addition to such collections of human remains, many saints whose bodies have been miraculously preserved are on display in churches. There’s also a Buddhist example of the miracle in Siberia. [Sacred Destinations]

A Mummy is a corpse whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very high humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. Presently, the oldest discovered (naturally) mummified human corpse was a decapitated head dated as 6,000 years old and was found in 1936.

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found throughout the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and as cultural artifacts to preserve the dead. [Wikipedia]

The body of St. Clare (d.1253) in the Basilica di Santa Chiara in Italy. sacred-destinations.com

Di Portugal. Foto: flickr.com/people/wordman

San Padre Pio (d.1968) Foto: conventopadrepio.it/italiano/indexit.html

Khambo Lama (d.1927) Foto: sacred-destinations.com