Lovely Travel to Sedlec Ossuary: The Church of Bones

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A trip to...

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The Sedlec Ossury

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here's a little history!

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If your interested in unusual chapels, this is your plce to go

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The sedlec ossuary is located in Sedlec, in the suburbs of Kutna hora

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This is a wonderful gothic church, which is also known as the church of bones

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This church began in the late 14th century

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The abbot of the sedlec monastery brought back a lot of earth from a journey

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he scattered the soil all over the sedlec cemetery. The soil was used for consecrating and healing

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In spring of 1421 , Husstite troops attacked Sedlec and burned the cathedral.

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at the end of the 15th century, the cemetery was somewhat reduced & bones were moved in the ossuary

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Between 1661-1663, the church received repairs:

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This can include the rearranging of bones

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-Star shaped vault from when the upper chapel was replaced

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During the bAROQUE PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY), THAT'S WHEN MAJOR REPAIR OF THE MONASTERY BEGAN

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The person who the cathedral, aichel, made the church the church of all saints with ossuary in baroque gothic style

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NOW here's some fun facts about the sedlec ossuary!!

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The Sedlec ossuary is home to the remains of more than 40,000 corpses

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The artit's signiture is in the chapel (of course it's in bone form)

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There is a chandelier that is made with every bone in the human body

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Also, home to family crest made out of bones

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The church gets more than 200,000 visitors per year (you should be one of them)

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Some more fun facts!

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The bones in the sedlec ossuary are very real

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Sedlec created because the plague caused many deaths of people. Many people went to the were buried in sedlec (all created idea of ossuary).

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Purpose of ossuary was to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.

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Bone boxes are called ossuaries- families would bury people in shroud once flesh is rotting, ones would be collected and placed.

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ossuaries are different today than they were back then- they do not require exhumation & reburial of bones. Instead, today Ossuaries consist of an above ground tomb/marker.

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The sedlec ossuary is truly a remarkable place

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I, myself, would love to take a visit there & I encourage all of my viewers to do the same! <3

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Thank you so, so much for watching! (: