Entrance of Sedlec Ossuary
vonsphotos > albums > Warsaw, Krakow & Prague
Album Info:
The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Christian chapel decorated with the bones of about 40,000 people! It is located in Sedlec which is a suburb in the outskirts of the Czech town Kutná Hora. The story begins in 1218, when a certain abbot Henry made a pilgrimage to the holy land and brought back a jar full of soil, which he spread over the Church’s cemetery. As a result the cemetery came to be regarded as sacred and turned into a popular burial spot. By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were buried there and by 1511, it had become necessary to remove the older bones to make place for the new ones. The bodies were exhumed, and the problem was then "what to do with all these bones?"
Sample Email
Below is what we'll send to your friends to invite them - edit or remove the optional note.
No comments so far...
To be able to leave a comment please Log in or Sign up.