oOOOoo, last night on the Travel Channel they were talking about catacombs, but I was falling asleep so every detail was kind of fuzzy, but I remember one caught my attention. There was a church that they talked about that was completely decorted in human bones. This morning I felt like writing about it on me journal, couldn't remember the name but luckily Google be so helpful :3 It's called "Kostnice Ossuary" or Church of Bones, it is in Sedlec, the suburbs to Kutna Hora, just outside of Prague. It started out in 1278 when Cistercian abbot of Sedlec, Henry travelled to Palestine and the "Holy Land" bringing back a sample of dirt, which was later sprinkled on the grounds of his local cememtary, making it sacred. After that people thrived to have themselves buried or their loved ones buried there. Then, during the 14th century the bubonic plague spread across Europe, killing 30,000 people which all wanted a resting place within the sacred cemetary. The popular demand led to the creation of the ossuary in 1511. A half blind monk took the bones to be stacked inside the ossuary (which was located beneath the All Saints Church), to make more room for other bodies which were quickly taken up by the victims of the 15th century Hussite Wars. Then later a man Frantisek Rint, a wood carver and artist was hired to imginatively arrange bones in the ossuary. From his imagination came the Schwarzenberg coat of arms and a chandelier made of every bone in the human body. And in the four corners of the ossuary sat four ‘bells’, pile upon pile of bones carefully stacked with a hollowed center.

        

   

 

 

I just found extremely interesting and absolutely amazing. It's gorgeous. Yes, I tend to have a very macabre imagination and interest >.> so anything with bones or gore peaks my interest. I shall do an entry on torture devices too! And perhaps one of Elizabeth Bathory ^-^ And Vlad if i'm not too lazy lol. But yes, that is the Kostnice for now. Catacombs are very wonderfully morbid things :3