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The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.
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. [ 1 ]
Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was a member of the Capuchin order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt. The underground crypt is divided into five chapels, lit only by dim natural light seeping in through cracks, and small fluorescent lamps.
The Archaeological Museum of Aidone is a regional museum in Aidone in the province of Enna, Sicily. It is housed in a former Capuchin convent dedicated to Saint Francis. [ 1 ] It was inaugurated in the summer of 1984 and preserves the findings of over thirty years of excavations in Morgantina , ordered according to chronological and thematic ...
As early as 1590, with construction underway, the Capuchin friars were able to move into the monastery, and in 1596 were authorised to officiate at Mass while the church was still under construction. Two years later, work came to a halt at the level of the cornice, both due to a lack of funds and the arrival of the plague in Turin.
The name "Capuchin", at first given by the people to the new Franciscan friars, was afterwards officially adopted. [2] In April 1529, the new order held its first chapter at Albacina, where Serafini was elected vicar-general by acclamation. A code of constitutions which was to serve as a basis to the Reform was elaborated.
The Order of the Capuchin Poor Clares was introduced to France by Queen Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, who wanted to create a convent in Bourges to be buried at. Upon her death on January 29, 1601, she bequeathed to her brother, Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, a sum of 60,000 livre tournois to build it; however, he died in February of 1602.
The Imperial Crypt (German: Kaisergruft), also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632, and located on the Neuer Markt square of the Innere Stadt , near the Hofburg Palace .