http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ItalianMummies Posts tagged with 'ItalianMummies' at MetaFilter. Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:57:09 -0800 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:57:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/34277/Italian%2Dmummies 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 <a href="http://www.italiansrus.com/articles/capuchin.htm" title="Preserved, for you consideration">so they embalmed him</a>. Four hundred years and 8,000 corpses later you can see <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~Motomom/index-3.html" title="It's a Tripod site, so it may not hold up">the Capuchin Catacombs</a> for yourself. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34277 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:57:09 -0800 capuchin CapuchinCatacombs catacombs embalming ItalianMummies Italy monks mummies mummy Palermo Sicily euphorb