Posted on 10/28/2014 8:34:22 AM PDT by millegan
The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic looks very normal on the outside... (see pics at the link)
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I was at Sedlec in 1991, while the look and feel of the place is creepy, the meaning behind it is noble. It was arranged in honor of those who died in the Black Death in 1348. Strangely enough, it’s actually quite respectful.
You can still see human bones strewn on the grounds beneath the main part of the church. Interesting how those were left in place.
I seriously doubt I could get my wife to spend more than a few seconds in one of these churches.
I guess if you lived through the black death this would be no big deal.
Not someplace I would want to visit.
I had a feeling this was plague-related. The morbid art of the dark ages and medieval age are astonishing and disturbing. You can see that people were surrounded by death in these various sculptures. Really a death culture. Even Notre Dame in Paris has morbid artwork. In Sicily, there are museums dedicated to dead bodies - these are not Church related, though.
“Well, we’ve got all these dead guys...might as well use ‘em!”
no bones about it, its a creepy place.
Do they have skeletons in their closet?
lol!
It’s actually... kind of sad, to me...
I don’t have a reason for it. All those people had names, faces, lives... people who loved them, hated them... depended on them.
And now they’re just... building material.
It’s possible the bodies were abandoned until they were nothing but bones, who knows? It’s possible they ran out of burial room, who knows? This is very medieval. Very different mindset. What will future generations say of our abortion-loving age?
According to Wikipedia, the bodies were unearthed when they were enlarging the Church in 1400. So, they made an ossuary and gave a half blind monk the job to arrange to bones, lol!
bttt
Uncle Fred is that leg bone third from the right of the door and Aunt Gertie's feet are way over there somewhere in the corner. Granny Fay's skull is up in the ceiling and the whole of Cousin George is hanging by the eighth pew from the left.
“The morbid art of the dark ages and medieval age are astonishing and disturbing.”
Morbid? I think some of what you’re calling morbid is just realistic about the reality and omnipresence of death on earth.
There’s nothing at all wrong with morbidity in art, Vlad. It is morbid art. It’s death, pure and simple. I said it was astonishing - and it is. It’s also so very European...
“...What will future generations say of our abortion-loving age?...”
I’d say that it depends on who wins, doesn’t it?
If we win, it’ll be “All those infants had names, faces, lives... and didn’t get to live them.”
If the Liberal Death Cult wins... it’ll be “What’s the body count today?”
This is a war. The Left sees it that way.
Most on our side... not so much.
“...It’s possible they ran out of burial room, who knows?...”
And to that point... you are probably correct. The Bubonic Plague (and it’s cousin, Pneumonic plague, which also was a nice little co-existing nasty neighbor) killed people so fast, and so thoroughly, there may not have been time - or people available - to bury the dead.
Once a virus pandemic goes on a burn, usually it takes the deaths of entire area - like Ebola did in Zaire and Sudan - to stop it; and even then, it doesn’t “die” - it just finds another host to incubate in until it emerges again.
As it turns out, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know!) that was, indeed, the reason. They found a colorful way to honor the bones of the dead that could not find burial space. It’s also called a “ossuary” which is a place to store bones.
Holocausts do not last forever. The Aztecs didn’t last forever and Saddam Hussein didn’t last forever and the Soviets didn’t last forever. When the smoke clears, future generations will say: How did they allow that to happen?
RE Ossuary:
Yes, indeed... I’ve heard that term. There’s also a massive Ossuary in France dedicated to the bones of the French soldiers killed at Verdun during that monumental cataclysm in 1916.
The French - and the Germans - lost an unimaginable number of young men at that months long battle.
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