Saturday, September 11, 2010

Medieval Timez Man


Our final stop before heading back to Prague was the bone church, which is exactly what it sounds like. Back in the 14th and 15th century too many people up and died and a lot of graves had to be reused. The corpses in mass graves from war and plague were exhumed and the bones of over 40,000 people now adorn the inside of this church. Its so creepy that its kind of hard to believe people came here to worship God and not the devil. Now all people worship is the lady at the souvenir table who will gladly sell you tiny replicas of skulls and glossy bone post cards.

2 comments:

  1. HannaH,
    just so you know for the past two years my fictional honeymoon plans have been to go on an ossuary (bone church) tour of the world. i am superiorly jealous of you.
    k8e

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