Also in Faro (Portugal) there is a chapel of bones, they were monks.pic.twitter.com/k38SiKTbEW
The Sedlec Ossuary is known as The Bone Church. It’s a small Roman-Catholic chapel located in the suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The Ossuary is estimated to contain bones from around 40,000 to 70,000 peoplepic.twitter.com/H1kInUitvh
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"A little paint, a little glue, the bones of 40,000 plague victims--"
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A lot from plague pits I think.
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Ossuaries are common enough - even without plague pits, bones get dug up & stored when a graveyard fills up. The practice of storing bones by type and size is normal, too (charnel pits are just jumbles of anonymous bones). The display... well, that's a bit odd, I'll grant you.
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There was a rather bizarre film made about this by Jan Švankmajer in the 70s:https://vimeo.com/9506317
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Deberíamos volver, fue una fantasía de visita
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There's a medieval skull there with an arrow hole right through it where the bone has partially regrown. As far as I know its story is unknown but it's remarkable that in the middle ages someone could have lived for years after getting an arrow in the brain.
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It's doesn't smell. It's beautiful!
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This place is on my bucket list. -
It is a pain in the ass to find from Prague & an extrememy small place. The pics are basicly it but it is beautiful.
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