Who Is Sister Wilhelmina?

Sister Wilhelmina died at age 95 four years ago. When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary exhumed her body on April 28, 2023, to move to a final resting place, it appeared to be incorrupt.

In Catholicism, an incorrupt saint is one whose body experiences little, no, or delayed decomposition after death. Now, her body is in a glass case in the monastery she founded in Missouri.

Volunteers and local law enforcement have been helping the nuns at the monastery manage large crowds in the town as people have been visiting to see and touch Wilhelmina's body. Nuns in Missouri are seeking advice over a future case for sainthood for their deceased sister.