Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

18 September 1967

(Letter to the Mother from M, sent through Amal:)

Beloved,

My daughter R has been constantly puzzling over the fact that the body of St. Francis Xavier is still undecayed after centuries. There does not seem to be any embalming done. R wants to know how this “miracle” has happened. What keeps the body incorrupt? Would you write a few words about it?

It is not a “miracle” but simply an unusual case.

He was a saint and an ascetic, even when he was alive the body was reduced to its minimum.

It is a phenomenon of dehydration.

18 September 1967