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       2022-05-10T08:33:43.735145Z
       
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       The Sedlec Ossuary, or Czech Church of BonesPart of the former Sedlec Abbey located in Kutna Hora, the Czech Republic, this Roman Catholic chapel contains the remains of between forty and seventy thousand people. In many cases, the remains of these people have been artfully arranged into grim works of art. History In the year one thousand two hundred and seventy eight, the abbot of the Sedlec Cistercian monastery was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar the Second of Bohemia. Returning with a small pouch of soil from Golgotha, he sprinkled it over the abbey cemetery, making it a desirable burial place. Near the year one thousand four hundred, a Gothic church was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as a ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during its construction. This role was taken on by a half-blind monk of the abbey. Between seventeen oh one and seventeen ten, a new entrance was constructed to support the front wall which had begun to lean and the chapel was rebuilt by Jan Santini Aichel. In eighteen seventy, Frantisek Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order. Rint commemorated the dead by arranging them into macabre memento mori. Pictured The exterior of the ossuary and chapel. A chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body hangs from the center of the chapel nave, surrounded by garlands of human skulls. The Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms is present, fashioned from the bones of the deceased. Coins are often left by human skulls. The Signature of the designer, Czech woodcarver and carpenter, Frantisek Rint.