Comments on: Italian mummies

Italian mummies

euphorb — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:57:09 -0800

Long ago in the town of Palermo in Sicily some monks got together and decided that they wanted to start praying to one of their own after he had passed to the Great Beyond so they embalmed him. Four hundred years and 8,000 corpses later you can see the Capuchin Catacombs for yourself.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:12:33 -0800

so that's where the Italian liberals meet

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:30:41 -0800

Good link. The wall of priests is especially creepy.

By: mmcg

mmcg — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:43:54 -0800

I'm going to amend my will to specifically state that I do not want to be embalmed, awkwardly hung from a wall and turned into a tourist attraction after I die. Sure, it sounds far-fetched, but I'm pretty sure this guy didn't think it could happen, either.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:31:27 -0800

Mummy monks.

By: biffa

biffa — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:50:42 -0800

The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rome also has catacombs along these lines, and its the same order of monks, so I guess they made a habit of it (apologies), except that in the roman version, they actually take the monks apart and use bits of their skeletons to make interesting patterns on the wall and ceiling. Nice. (I have been there, its thoroughly rank.)

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:35:50 -0800

Rank? Hardly! Rome's bone church is fabu. Also, the inscription when you walk in: What you are, we once were. What we are now, you will become. I was just there to pay my respects but sadly, it's closed for restoration.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:46:25 -0800

Does one restore bones from the bone church with new bones, one wonders.

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:48:57 -0800

La cripta dei Cappuccini - Chiesa dell'Immacolata on preview: Ciao CL!

By: stonerose

stonerose — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:45:12 -0800

The ossuary in Kutna Hora (Czech Republic) is also decorated with disassembled skeletons.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 06:41:59 -0800

Thanks for the link, stonerose. I have always wanted to visit that ossuary (made of 40 thousand people!). See also this thread.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:39:25 -0800

I've been to Kutna Hora. At the presentation they blacked out the place and did a spotlight thingee while playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Very, very creepy.

By: nims

nims — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:59:43 -0800

This site presents also some fine pictures of ossuaries in the catacombs of Paris.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:20:26 -0800

I need a link to maria sharapova to cheer me up after all this.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:08:43 -0800

Wow, these are fabulous links gang, thank you!

By: outsider

outsider — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:59:53 -0800

two of the photographers are named "mike prenis" and "nacho prevenuty". They should get married (im assuming nacho is a girls name, I mean WTF if you are naming your kid nacho it dosent matter what sex they are) so one would be called Nacho Prenis. Yah, I got nothing.

By: atom128

atom128 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:52:02 -0800

living dead.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:04:41 -0800

I don't know why I am stunned things like this exist, or more precisely, still exist (i.e. have not been dismantled, destroyed, or ruined) but I am. Absolutely incredible.

By: biffa

biffa — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:49:59 -0800

outsider: all the nachos I've known have been blokes, short for Ignacio.