Well the Eastern Orthodox hold too much reverance for the Mystery that they wouldn't likely have an incorrupt body ever analyzed. You can see what the Catholics say on their part--they have an explanation for everything, but I tend to just adore the Mystery. With that said, at least from personal observation and deduction I can say that in the cases mentioned above, there is no explanation that I could see accounting for it. When I saw Saint Madorije, I remember hearing that his robes had turned green and fell apart when he was disinterred and released what several witnesses testify to as a sweat aroma. Moreover, his skin did not change color until they washed it in the way they do on Mount Athos, and that was what turned his skin darker. But when I saw him up close, or his body, there were veins, skin, ligaments, bones, nails, hair and the only reason it doesn't look more similar to a living being is that corpses dehydrate when not vital for years on end. Personally, I've experienced enough crazy stuff having to due with phenomena which defy our dominant picture of reality today to not believe in it. The lamp starting to swing at a monastery without an identifiable force or cause when the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) was being venerated with song. Healing of something in a way unexplainable, etc... The truth is that these bodies though are still but just a tiny reminder of the promise of the resurrection and that God can work through people and even their bodies once they've been discarded as the living memory of Christ within them is retained.
What is the scientific explanation behind these phenomena?
Well the Eastern Orthodox hold too much reverance for the Mystery that they wouldn't likely have an incorrupt body ever analyzed. You can see what the Catholics say on their part--they have an explanation for everything, but I tend to just adore the Mystery. With that said, at least from personal observation and deduction I can say that in the cases mentioned above, there is no explanation that I could see accounting for it. When I saw Saint Madorije, I remember hearing that his robes had turned green and fell apart when he was disinterred and released what several witnesses testify to as a sweat aroma. Moreover, his skin did not change color until they washed it in the way they do on Mount Athos, and that was what turned his skin darker. But when I saw him up close, or his body, there were veins, skin, ligaments, bones, nails, hair and the only reason it doesn't look more similar to a living being is that corpses dehydrate when not vital for years on end. Personally, I've experienced enough crazy stuff having to due with phenomena which defy our dominant picture of reality today to not believe in it. The lamp starting to swing at a monastery without an identifiable force or cause when the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) was being venerated with song. Healing of something in a way unexplainable, etc... The truth is that these bodies though are still but just a tiny reminder of the promise of the resurrection and that God can work through people and even their bodies once they've been discarded as the living memory of Christ within them is retained.