No early Church could be complete without the vaults of the Reliquarium
Hands, feet, limbs, bones and heads, bodies encased in iron and glass
Counterfeit relics from foreskins of Christ to the blood of Januarius
Unshaken faith in Bodily Incorruption, Saints whose corpses forever last
Catholicism forever rampant in idolatry
This superstitious vice will never run its course
Taken to extreme with belief in Incorruptibility
When you ingest the putrefaction of a rotting corpse
Henry VIII set out to break the cultus of corpse worship
But even the best efforts merely drove them underground
Pilgrims converge from all aboard to gaze at this religious fraud
And pray for intercession from a dead body and its shroud
Catholicism forever rampant in idolatry
A practice that lives on forever more
Taken to extreme with belief in Incorruptibility
When you ingest the putrefaction of a rotting corpse
The body of Saint Charbel secreted rancid oils and fluids
Which sept right through the lining of his tomb for many years
Strips of his saturated clothing were given to the infirmed
Adipocere congealed within his coffin, as curative, preserved
The 'Oil of Saint Walburga' is distributed to the sick
Distilled from her decaying bones for the last thousand years
Just like the fountain of Lourdes, laying on of hands, anointing oils
A slight of hand by the aid of man, and carcasses well preserved
De Cadaverum Incorruptione
De Cadaverum Incorruptione
De Cadaverum Incorruptione
De Cadaverum Incorruptione