Question
Nuns at the Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia who follow this belief will ring their bells when the odor of sanctity is particularly strong. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Catholic and Orthodox belief in which the bodies of saints or the beatified do not decompose.
ANSWER: incorruptibility [accept word forms such as being incorruptible or incorrupt]
[10h] Three incorruptible saints of this city became martyrs after they were forced to eat meat during an Orthodox fast. Hasidism was opposed by the Misnagdim led from this city by a man who rarely slept while making massive edits to the Torah.
ANSWER: Vilnius [or Vilna; accept the Martyrs of Vilnius; accept Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna] (The saints are Anthony, John, and Eustathius.)
[10e] The incorrupt Orthodox patron saint of North America, Saint Herman of Alaska, lived as one of these people called a poustinik. Desert fathers like St. Anthony were examples of these people, who practiced extreme seclusion.
ANSWER: hermits [accept ascetics or eremites or solitary; accept anchorites or anchorets or anchoresses; prompt on monks; prompt on holy men]
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