The Dead on Display
Wall of bones and corpse, Capela dos Ossos, Portugal. Photo
Mick L.
Bone chandelier in the Sedlec Ossuary; corpse in Capuchin Catacombs.
The body of St. Clare (d.1253) is on display (with a wax mask) in the
Basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi, Italy.
The body of San Padre Pio (d.1968) has been on display in San
Giovanni Rotondo since April 2008 for the 40th anniversary of his death.
