Monday, March 17, 2014

The chapel made from thousands of human BONES: Walls made from skeletons including one of a 'giant' and another riddled with syphilis

-The chapel, built by a local priest, is located in town of Czermna in Poland

-Priest placed skeletons in the walls and ceilings between 1776 and 1804

-Skeletons are of fallen soldiers and civilians killed in the Silesian Wars and the Thirty Years’ War as well as those devastated by plagues and cholera

-They are intended to be a reminder of mortality and human salvation

-On the altar is the skull of the local mayor as well as bullet-ridden skeletons


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2582563/The-chapel-thousands-human-BONES-Walls-skeletons-including-one-giant-riddled-syphilis.html

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