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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Specific scent that is believed to emanate from the bodies of saints</div> <p>The <b>odour of sanctity</b>, according to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, is commonly understood to mean a specific scent (often compared to <a href="/wiki/Flowers" class="mw-redirect" title="Flowers">flowers</a>) that emanates from the bodies of <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saints</a>, especially from the wounds of <a href="/wiki/Stigmata" title="Stigmata">stigmata</a>. These saints are called <a href="/wiki/Myroblyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Myroblyte">myroblytes</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the exudation itself is referred to as myroblysia<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or myroblytism. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meanings">Meanings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Meanings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The odour of sanctity can be understood to mean two things: </p> <ol><li>An <a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">ontological</a> state (a state of being), not usually related to an actual olfactory sensation, indicating that the individual possessing it is in a state of <a href="/wiki/Grace_(Christianity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grace (Christianity)">grace</a> (i.e., a state characterized by the absence of <a href="/wiki/Mortal_sin" title="Mortal sin">mortal sin</a>). Usually refers to the state of an individual's <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> at the time of death. Some <a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonized saints</a> are said to have died in an odour of sanctity.</li> <li>An actual <a href="/wiki/Odour" class="mw-redirect" title="Odour">odour</a> (scent or aroma) present at the time of death and for some time thereafter.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Odour_of_sanctity_and_sainthood">Odour of sanctity and sainthood</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Odour of sanctity and sainthood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "odour of sanctity" appears to have emerged in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, at a time when many saints were raised to that status by <a href="/wiki/Acclamation" title="Acclamation">acclamation</a> of the faithful. In the absence of carefully written records, either by or about the individual, evidence of a saintly life was attested to only by personal recollections of those around him or her. It appears that the odour of sanctity occurring at the person’s death carried some weight in convincing the local <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">ecclesiastical</a> authority to <a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonize</a> the saint – to allow the faithful to <a href="/wiki/Veneration" title="Veneration">venerate</a> them and ask the saint to intercede on their behalf. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Potential_natural_cause">Potential natural cause</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Potential natural cause"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is a theory that the odour of sanctity is due to the smell of <a href="/wiki/Acetone" title="Acetone">acetone</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Acetoacetic_acid" title="Acetoacetic acid">acetoacetic acid</a>, caused by <a href="/wiki/Ketosis" title="Ketosis">ketosis</a> brought on by <a href="/wiki/Starvation" title="Starvation">starvation</a> from <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_examples">Notable examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notable examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Odour_of_sanctity" title="Special:EditPage/Odour of sanctity">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Saint <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux" title="Thérèse of Lisieux">Thérèse de Lisieux</a> (a French Discalced Carmelite known as "the Little Flower") was said to have produced a strong scent of <a href="/wiki/Rose" title="Rose">roses</a> at her death, which was detectable for days afterward. </p><p>At the moment <a href="/wiki/Madame_Elisabeth" class="mw-redirect" title="Madame Elisabeth">Madame Elisabeth</a> was guillotined "an odour of roses was diffused over the <a href="/wiki/Place_de_la_Concorde" title="Place de la Concorde">Place de la Révolution</a>" where she met her end.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, the blood issuing from <a href="/wiki/Pio_of_Pietrelcina" class="mw-redirect" title="Pio of Pietrelcina">Padre Pio</a>'s stigmata allegedly smelled of flowers.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some dust taken from the incorrupt remains of <a href="/wiki/Maria_Droste_zu_Vischering" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Droste zu Vischering">Maria Droste zu Vischering</a> in 1899 was meanwhile said to have emanated an agreeable scent. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Incorruptibility" title="Incorruptibility">Incorruptibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_of_Saints" title="Oil of Saints">Oil of Saints</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Odour_of_sanctity&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pt.aleteia.org/2013/08/14/o-que-e-o-odor-de-santidade/">"O que é o "odor de santidade"?"</a>. <i>Aleteia Vaticano</i> (in Portuguese). 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