Posts tagged Capuchin Crypt
A Bone To Pick: Inside Europe’s Spooky Churches And Monuments To Death

Beneath a church sanctuary, a basement is filled with skeletons of over 40,000 individuals arranged in horrifying ways — it is like a scene out of a scary movie, but it is entirely real. For Christians, memento mori — a Latin phrase meaning “remember you must die” — is inescapable.

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