Church - Believe it or Not! - PowerPoint slideshow
Category: History, Museums
From: ovidiu27 (is not the author)
Date: 22.07.2008
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Description: Believe it or Not!
About 70 kilometres east the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, lies
a small town called Sedlec. It might have been an ordinary enough town,
if not for its extraordinary church. The inside of this church is decorated
with artworks made of human bones!
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. These later became the material for the macabre creations.
In 1870 a local woodcarver was hired by the Duke of Shwartzenberg to
decorate the inside of the church with the human remains (approximately
40,000 sets of bones.
This was shown recently in "Ripley's believe it or not" ....S
