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AloeVera

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4. And look what happened to HIM.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 01:27 PM
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Enduring much pain in his last days, he finally "yielded up his soul without any effort, like a candle going out", while reciting the psalm Deus, in adjutorium me festina (O Lord, make haste to help me).[123] His body was laid to rest in the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris. It remained there undisturbed for about 80 years until revolutionaries exhumed and destroyed all of the remains found in the Basilica.[124] In 1848, at Nuneham House, a piece of Louis's mummified heart, taken from his tomb and kept in a silver locket by Lord Harcourt, Archbishop of York, was shown to the Dean of Westminster, William Buckland, who ate a part of it.Nuneham House[125] It is reported that a part of his heart and that of Louis XIII were used to obtain mummy-brown by Martin Drolling. [126]

-wiki

Mummx-brown, btw, was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh.

It's possible we may have a brand new pigment, if history repeats.

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