look for a setting for your next taken up repugnance movie ? Many of the ornate and elaborate ossuaries around the humans serve as down admonisher of mortality , and conjure an eery sentiency that their skeletal walls could suddenly spring to liveliness .
Santa Maria della Concezionein Rome , where 4,000 Capuchin mendicant remainder ; a brass inside read : “ What you are now , we once were ; what we are now , you shall be : ”
Sedlec Ossuaryin the Czech Republic , which features some of the most creative uses of human bones . Commonly know as the “ Bone Church , ” it feature goblet , candelabras , a family crest , and a chandelier all made from skeletal remains :
San Bernardino alle Ossain Milan , whose dweller came for the most part from the nearby hospital after the adjoining burying ground prove insufficient :
The Chapel of Skullsin Czermna , Poland , create by a priest and a gravedigger in 1776 as a “ bema of muteness . ” The pair spent 18 years amassing and arranging some 24,000 skeletons , often with a Jolly Roger motif :
The Chapel of Bonesin Evora , Portugal , with the ivory display publicly as part of the Royal Church of St. Francis . A gay inscription take , “ We bones that are here , for your bones we wait : ”
The Skull Tower of Niš , Serbia , construct by Turkish full general Hurshi Pasha in 1809 during the Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire . The skulls come from Serbian rebels to serve as grim symbol of the superior general ’s triumph . 952 skull were used in the tower , but most of the skulls were pried out and come back to the families of the rebels . Fifty - eight currently remain :
The Paris Catacombsin France , which hold somewhere between six and seven million bodies . This less ornate ossuary was built in the former 18th Century when the city ’s cemeteries became overcrowded :
[ Atlas Obscura ]
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