dam bones den bones

A chapel in the czech republic  contains  beautiful  decorations and  furnishing  and they're  all made from hum skeletons centuries ago the abbey at  sidlec was major burial site.  Around 1400, a church was built in the  middle of the cemetery and a small chapel was used as and ossuary for the mass graces unearthed during construction. above is a detail from a pinnacle decorative pyramid of bones each pinnacle in the chapel is crowned with a cherub. The task of exhuming. skeleton  and stacking their  bones was given to a half blind monk. In  1870 wood  carve  frantisek Rint was employed by the  schwarzenberg  family who owned the  church to put  the bone heaps in order. He  turned  40,00 skeleton into amazing  artistic creations  producing  crosses columns  and chalices of bones. From the center of the nave hangs an enormous chandelier  featuring every bones in the  human body severe time over. garland  of skulls drape  the vaults for bell shaped bone mounds occupy  corners of the chapel monstrances of bones flank the altar and there is even a bones replica of the schwarzenberg coat of arms. below is one the chapel's  bone chalices.The use of bones crate this and all the other decoration  was intended to give the visitor and impression of the shortness of life and the inevitability  of death.The bones come mainly from victims of the black death plague that swept across Europe  in the 14th century  when 30,000 people were buried in sedlec century. some however are also casualties from the Hussite wars of  the  15th century on some of the skulls the make of wounds are clearly visible. The image on the left shows  a cross shaped  decoration  above the entrance to the chapel. blow is one of the two solar crosses that are placed in the recesses on either side of the altar. called  form book ripley believe it to not