The Saint is a short story written by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In that story, a man named Margarito Duarte always carries around with him a small coffin with a dead body that never decomposes. It is the body of his daughter who died at the age of seven because of a fever. He had to disinter the body because a dam that was going to be constructed required the acquisition of the parish cemetery. All the parishioners disinterred the tombs of their beloved so that the bones could be buried in a new cemetery. Margarito found the bones of his wife who had died giving birth to their daughter. But when he opened the tomb of his daughter he was in for a shock. his daughter’s body had remained intact eleven years after the burial. His daughter looked alive with her eyes open and sparkling. Margarito, who had not studied beyond the primary school, believed what the villagers said: “the incorruptibility of the body was an un...
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