Places of Worship Fully Skull

That said, no one has very high magic. He condemned many women and children to death. Strangely, the bodies refused to be buried in the local cemetery. Until finally placed in the chapel of the skull and residing in that place until now.

Perhaps the only story in the saga sakibul or local folklore, because no one knows the actual events, which obviously many skulls women and children hanging in the chapel called: Capela dos Ossos - which means: Chapel of Skulls!
Capella dos Ossos located in Evora, Portugal. A chapel that has existed since the 16th century. The place of worship is a unique son of weird because all the walls adorned with skull and skeleton.


How could this happen? According to history, in the 16th century there were 43 pieces funeral in Evora. When there is a decision to mehancurkan some cemeteries, skulls 5000 monks moved to Chapel dos Ossos.
Somehow, the idea arose of the monks in the chapel dos Ossos to make 5000 the skull was a part of interior decoration in the chapel. That is still to be a place for solitude, so that people who come realize one day we must die so do not be too busy with worldly glitter.

The proof, at the entrance to the chapel depending writing "Nos Ossos que aqui estamos, pelos Vossos esperamos," which roughly means "skull we (already) here, (and) we look forward to your skull" is a reminder of all people will someday dead.

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In addition to in Portugal, is no longer a church in Czechoslovakia are also interior decorated with skulls, the Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice Sedlec). In this place a lot more number of skull, between 40000-70000 skull.
The church is decorated in 1870 by the Schwarzenberg family. This family really intend to decorate the church with the skull, as a craftsman hired so that the results are satisfactory.See the photos below, the skulls neatly arranged into ornate artistic merit. While there may be among us who still shudder because the skull surrounded by thousands of ... somehow.