that’s some hefty grill work.
who says you can’t take it with you.
If the jewelry is real some of those skeletons must have a Million dollars worth on them!
“gruesome skeletons”
It’s not like we don’t have our own skeletons. Mine isn’t gruesome at all. I’m quite fond of it.
Catholic relic beliefs are often understandable to me especially if it is actually a bonafide relic
These are stretching that a lot adorning skeletons but I’m glad someone saved this stuff
Remarkable
Oh, God. This is going to give my wife ideas.
Dead rappers and their bling......
Thousands of skeletons were dug up from Roman catacombs in the 16th century and installed in towns around Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on the orders of the Vatican. They were sent to Catholic churches and religious houses to replace the relics destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. Mistaken for the remains of early Christian martyrs, the morbid relics, known as the Catacomb Saints, became shrines reminding of the spiritual treasures of the afterlife. They were also symbols of the Catholic Church’s newly found strength in previously Protestant areas.After they were found in the Roman catacombs the Vatican authorities would sign certificates identifying them as martyrs. Then they put the bones in boxes and sent them northwards. The skeletons would then be dressed and decorated in jewels, gold, and silver, mostly by nuns. Each one was painstakingly decorated in thousands of pounds worth of gold, silver, and gems by devoted followers before being displayed in church niches. Some took up to five years to decorate.
But by the 19th century, they had become morbid reminders of an embarrassing past and many were stripped of their honours and discarded.