POLISH CHURCH IS DECORATED
WITH 20,000 SKELETONS
G'day folks,
There is
a chapel in Poland outside the Kaplica Czaszek that is absolutely terrifying.
The modest looking St. Batholomew’s Church (also called the Kaplica Czaszek) is
literally made of thousands of real human bones. I really can’t believe that
places like this exist, because believe it or not there are more chapels like
this throughout the world.
Stepping
inside this place would be one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
So much death in one place really can’t be good for anyone. Imagine trying to
worship in a place like this? I don’t think I could ever concentrate on trying
to have a spiritual experience with thousands of human bones surrounding me.
The chapel walls are made
from bones which are intended to be a reminder of mortality of human salvation
in the face of death.
The chapel was created
after a priest visited shallow grave sites of fallen soldiers and civilians
killed in the Silesian Wars and the Thirty Years’ War, in addition to victims
of plague.
After seeing the poignant reminder of those who had fallen, Czech priest Vaclav Tomasek and J. Langer, the local grave-digger collected and cleaned skeletal remains, embedding them in the chapel walls between 1776 and 1804.
There are over 3,000
victims in the ceilings and walls and an additional 21,000 remains hidden
behind a trap door in a crypt underneath the chapel. Would you ever take a visit to a place like this?
Clancy's comment: There ya go. The world sure is an interesting place, eh?
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