Macabre Skeletal Sculptures Of Roman Catholic Church

Aerianne · Oct 10, 2012

Sedlec Ossuary in Czech Republic

There's a website with pics of chapel decorations made from 40,000 to 70,000 skeletons

http://www.sedlecossuary.com/Photo-gallery.html

Aerianne · Oct 11, 2012

Lynnbrown · Oct 11, 2012

Dear GOD!!! (pun intended )

What the hell?!? They couldn't come up with better "decorations" than that? That is just to creepy to think about any furthur.

Mothman · Oct 11, 2012

I can't imagine what the energy must feel like in there. I wonder if there was a spiritual/magical purpose for using bones in the design?

Mayor Salt · Oct 11, 2012

From the website:

Historical Facts

The history of Sedlec Ossuary is quite unusual as you may have expected. It all started when Henry, the Cistercian abbot was sent to the Holy Land, in Palestina.
He brought back a jar of earth from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the place where Jesus was crucified at Golgotha.
When he arrived back, he put the earth over the cemetery. The rumor about his act soon spread out all over the place, and thus Sedlec became a desired place to be buried.
Some people even brought their dead relatives to be buried in the Holy Soil of Sedlec.

Soon, in Europe the plague caused the death of many people, and many people went to Sedlec before their death. In a little amount of time a lot of people were buried in Sedlec, and thus came the idea of creating an ossuary.
The task of creating the ossuary was given to a half blind monk who arranged the bones. But only more than 300 years later, the bones were arranged artistically as they are today.
In 1870, a local woodcarver, Frantisek Rindt was given the task to decorate the chapel with the bones. And the amazing result speak for itself. 40.000 human bodies are now arranged and the place is now popularly known as the Church of Bones.
In 1970, 100 years after Rindt made the decoration of the ossuary, a Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmayer made a small 10 minute documentary about it.

It is not the only ossuary in Europe, but it is one of the most famous. There are some in central and south America as well.
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Here's a link to a few more if you're curious.

http://atlasobscura.com/category/ossuaries

FlyingFly · Nov 17, 2012

Awesome!

Catalya · Nov 18, 2012

Neatly grotesque.
Will be on my to-visit-list

porkstock41 · Nov 18, 2012

cool post

zombiewolf · Nov 18, 2012

They had a lot of bones..might as well be crafty! :2thumbsup:

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Aerianne · Nov 18, 2012

orison319 said:

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Gimme five, bro!

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