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The ossuary is a major plot device in the John Connolly novel The Black Angel. [9] The ossuary is used as a location for the Dungeons & Dragons movie [10] and the movie Blood & Chocolate. In April 2002, German author Jason Dark featured the ossuary in issue 1240 Das Knochenkreuz of his long-running dime novel series Geisterjäger John Sinclair.
The village of Wamba in the province of Valladolid, Spain, has an impressive ossuary of over a thousand skulls inside the local church, dating from between the 12th and 18th centuries. A more recent example is the Douaumont ossuary in France , which contains the remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers that fell at the Battle of ...
The Skull Chapel (Polish: Kaplica Czaszek) [1] is an ossuary chapel located in the Czermna district of Kudowa-Zdrój, in southwestern Poland.Built in Baroque style in the last quarter of the 18th century, the temple serves as a mass grave with thousands of skulls and human skeletal remains adorning its interior walls, floor, ceiling, and foundations.
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Interior of the chapel Chapel wall Close-up with skulls. The Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) is one of the best-known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a small interior chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The Chapel gets its name because the interior walls are covered and decorated with human skulls ...
The ossuary was a cemetery chapel, built at the end of the 14th century and modified in the Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century by Jan Santini Aichel. It is estimated that the ossuary is decorated with bones of more than 40,000 skeletons that belonged to those who died from plague epidemics and the Hussite Wars.
Signature of František Rint in the Sedlec Ossuary. František Rint (26 January 1835 - ?) was a 19th-century Czech woodcarver and carpenter.He was employed by the House of Schwarzenberg to organize the human bones interred at the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Christian chapel in Sedlec, in 1870.
The crypt, or ossuary, now contains the remains of 4,000 friars buried between 1500 and 1870, during which time the Roman Catholic Church permitted burial in and under churches. As of 1851, the crypt was only opened to the public in exchange for an admittance fee for the week following All Souls Day . [ 9 ]