Capuchin catacombs - Palermo - details and images
Capuchin Catacombs: a groovy place, but visited each year by thousands of tourists come from around the world who come here to see the more than 8,000 mummies, very well preserved, placed in thousands of famous underground crypts.
Originally a place for exclusive Capuchin monks, would later adoposteasca noble bodies of Palermo. It was an honor to be "buried" here, only citizens and their families with important part of this honor, along with monks.
The bodies were dried grills and ceramic pipes in the catacombs, after a while, washed with vinegar. Some bodies had been embalmed and others were sealed in glass.
The priests were dressed in religious robes, others in accordance with contemporary fashion. Relatives could come to visit and pray for the deceased and also to keep the body in presentable condition. Catacombs were maintained through donations from relatives of the deceased. Each new body was initially placed in a niche will be relocated temporarily or permanently in place. As long as contributions continued, the body remained fixed in place, but when the family ceased to pay, the body was put aside in a rack (up to the resumption of contributions).
Last mummies from the 1920s. Among them is the Rosaliei Lombardo, having then two years old, whose body is remarkably preserved.
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