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Memento Mori

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Rome’s Capuchin Crypt contains the remains of more than 4,000 monks who died between 1528 and 1870, including several intact skeletons wearing Franciscan habits.

Reportedly it inspired the Sedlec Ossuary.

June 22, 2007July 19, 2013 | Death · Oddities · Religion

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