Off to a different market on the hunt for some shoes for Hermione – no luck! Borghese Gardens was next on the agenda. We hired a quad bike for an hour and toured around the gardens. Nev again was disappointed about how they were so neglected but had the potential for being beautiful. People were sitting in the grass and you could hardly see them because it was so long, they were surrounded by weeds and daisies
Kerry had told us of a site to visit – The Temple of the Capuchin Monks, so this was next. Wow! A very interesting place and I am so pleased she told us about it as I couldn’t find information anywhere else.
It was only €1 to enter and it was a crypt underneath a church where a few centuries ago the Monks found old very important Monk bones!! I found this description and unfortunately don’t know who the author is to acknowledge them, however they sum it up well.
“The bones in this crypt were nailed to the wall and arranged in patterns: cross, floral, arch, triangle and circle, as well as forming objects. A large clock is composed of vertebrae, foot bones and finger bones. The single hour hand represents the idea that time has no beginning or end.
he bones in the six-room crypt represent over 4,000 individual monks. It is said monks fled the French Revolution (1793-94) and took refuge at the Church in Roma. There are many theories about the arrangement of the bones, but most stories end with the notion that the anonymous artist reaped his heavenly reward. One tale says that a French Capuchins did the work, no doubt mimicking the catacombs of Paris. The Marquis de Sade visited the crypt in 1775 and described it as "An example of funerary art worthy of an English mind", created "by a German priest who lived in this house."
A view of the entrance room from the interior of the crypt.
Iron gates on the right lead to the six rooms. The vaulted ceiling of the 60' hallway.
One of several lampshades
composed mainly of vertebrae and sacral bones.
A standing Capuchin monk skeleton
surrounded by patterns made with bones.
Kerry had told us of a site to visit – The Temple of the Capuchin Monks, so this was next. Wow! A very interesting place and I am so pleased she told us about it as I couldn’t find information anywhere else.
It was only €1 to enter and it was a crypt underneath a church where a few centuries ago the Monks found old very important Monk bones!! I found this description and unfortunately don’t know who the author is to acknowledge them, however they sum it up well.
“The bones in this crypt were nailed to the wall and arranged in patterns: cross, floral, arch, triangle and circle, as well as forming objects. A large clock is composed of vertebrae, foot bones and finger bones. The single hour hand represents the idea that time has no beginning or end.
he bones in the six-room crypt represent over 4,000 individual monks. It is said monks fled the French Revolution (1793-94) and took refuge at the Church in Roma. There are many theories about the arrangement of the bones, but most stories end with the notion that the anonymous artist reaped his heavenly reward. One tale says that a French Capuchins did the work, no doubt mimicking the catacombs of Paris. The Marquis de Sade visited the crypt in 1775 and described it as "An example of funerary art worthy of an English mind", created "by a German priest who lived in this house."
A view of the entrance room from the interior of the crypt.
Iron gates on the right lead to the six rooms. The vaulted ceiling of the 60' hallway.
One of several lampshades
composed mainly of vertebrae and sacral bones.
A standing Capuchin monk skeleton
surrounded by patterns made with bones.
Many of the monk skeletons are supine
in individual niches.
The Capuchins separated from the Franciscans in 1525 in order to get back to a more fundamental interpretation of St. Francis' edict to help the poor and the helpless. The bearded Capuchins wear sandals with no socks, and a tunic with a rope belt, and a hood. It is the hood, the capuce, from which the name of the order derives. Cappuccino coffee is named after the colour of their robes.”
A monk surrounded by skulls.
Comparing photographs with those from the early1900s shows
that the crypt has altered little in the last 100 years.
in individual niches.
The Capuchins separated from the Franciscans in 1525 in order to get back to a more fundamental interpretation of St. Francis' edict to help the poor and the helpless. The bearded Capuchins wear sandals with no socks, and a tunic with a rope belt, and a hood. It is the hood, the capuce, from which the name of the order derives. Cappuccino coffee is named after the colour of their robes.”
A monk surrounded by skulls.
Comparing photographs with those from the early1900s shows
that the crypt has altered little in the last 100 years.
An altar surrounded by bones. The cryptalso contains the heart of Capuchin devotee
Maria Felice Peretti (1656),
the earliest date in the crypt.
Kerry was absolutely right…..we will probably never see something like this again!
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Umm.... I'm not too sure about this really!
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