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 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:09 am
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I've heard about this fascinating Ossuary in Sedlec (in the Czech Republic) that uses human bones for decor. It's quite beautiful!
The Sedlec ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel, located in the graveyard of the Church of All Saints in Sedlec a suburb of Kutnį Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is decorated with many thousands of human bones.
In the 13th century Sedlec became a site of pilgrimage and many people brought their dead and dying relatives to the town to be buried. During the Black Death many thousands of people were buried there and the graveyard filled to overflowing. The ossuary was built around 1511, and a monk, who was apparently half blind, was given the task making more room for bodies in the ground by removing skeletons from the graveyard and placing them in the ossuary thereby creating great pyramids of bones. In 1870, the Schwarzenberg family bought Sedlec monastery and employed a man by the name of Frantisek Rint to create the extraordinary decorations that can be seen today. These include the Schwarzenberg coat of arms, Rint's own signature, and a chandelier that is said to contain every single bone in the human body.
A chandelier
Coat of Arms
Has anyone ever visited this place? Heard of this place? Anyone want to visit?
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I do not want to die inside just to breath in
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:10 am
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Wow! i'll have to visit.
I've been to the Caupuchin Crypt on the Via Veneto in Rome. It is also quite famous, but is really only a series of long low cellars with various chapels etc. It is said that they were all the French monks who fled the revolution. (40,000)
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It has a grim reaper on the ceiling made from what I take to be a toddler.
But your ossuary is much more beautiful!
There is also a huge Capuchin Chapel in Palermo, Sicily - where people asked to be placed (mummified and fully dressed in their Sunday best when they died. Take a look: http://www.karalla.com/Gallery5a/index.htm OR http://www3.sympatico.ca/tapholov/pages/mummies.htm
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Mischa
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:52 pm
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Interesting pictures psychoangel! I wasn“t aware of such decoration. 
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psychoangel
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:25 pm
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Thank you Diablo! I didn't know there were others as well. So many places to visit so little time!
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:28 pm
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P.S. forgot that Paris catacombs!
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