The Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, is a small Christian chapel decorated with the human bones. Frisco Ramirez has a cool collection of photos about it: Link |
The Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, is a small Christian chapel decorated with the human bones. Frisco Ramirez has a cool collection of photos about it: Link |
Children are sometimes posed. Two are seated together in a small rocking chair. Rosalia Lombardo was one of the last corpses to make it to the catacombs before the local authorities discontinued the practice. Rosalia died about 1920 and is nicknamed the "Sleeping Beauty". It was said that her sister and family visited her coffin often after her death.
Legend has it that in the late 13th century a handful of earth from Christ's grave was brought to Sedlec and scattered over the graveyard, thus turning it into a pilgrimage site for people from all over Central Europe. The medieval plague epidemic saw thousands of people being buried there, far too many for the graveyard to cope with.
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