you many want to give these links a miss.
Here are a couple of articles and photo galleries of the famous catacombs in the Capuchin Church in Palermo, Sicily. I've included them here only because of my interest in cemeteries and burial grounds, their art, sociology and culture. A different culture's approach to death and the dead is a fascinating thing...
Ghoulish mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily
Mummies of Palermo finally get a makeover
Just back: a descent into the afterlife
4 comments:
Wow! That's definitely something. There's a church my wife and I visited once in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, with a similar crypt underneath - after a plague, there was no room left in the church cemetery, so the bodies were all exhumed and the skeletons used for decorative motifs, chandeliers, etc. I put a couple of my pictures here, but I'm sure there are better ones out there.
So that's where you hide your stuff on the 'net, Joel! :-)
I took a look at the photos. It seems to me that I've seen photos of that church before on the 'net. Given the fact that I'm a tapophile (a person who loves cemeteries and burial grounds) there's little that I've missed on the internet about them. I'd love to see the church in person. Both of them. Travel is so hard when you're 'across the pond'.
Definitely. When we were living in Scotland, we asked each other "why don't we travel like this at home"? Now that we're back in the colonies, the reasons have made themselves clearly understood (what entry-level job in the US offers seven weeks' vacation, for a start?).
Heather and I empathize with your tapophilia. We were engaged in the Glasgow Necropolis!
Really? Brilliant! That's so wonderful! Another taphophile. The world gets smaller and smaller.
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