Capuchin Catacombs, 1897

Stereograph shows corridor in the Cappuccini Catacombs, Rome, Italy, 1897. The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 3, 700 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order. As monks died during the lifetime of the crypt, the longest-buried monk was exhumed to make room for the newly-deceased who was buried without a coffin, and the newly-reclaimed bones were added to the decorative motifs. This image has been color enhanced

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