Friday, 14 October 2011
Meet two virgins from Sicily
Here are two dead people from the Chapel of the Virgins in Monastery of Santa Maria della Pace, Palermo
Categories: Attitudes to dead bodies
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Richard Rawlinson said...
I imagine these two are among the 8,000 mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, arranged in rooms according to their status: man or woman; priest or professional; child or adult – or the chamber for virgins. The Italian government outlawed mummification at the site in 1881. Certainly macabre when not saints visualised for the purpose of prayer for intercession.
sweetpea said...
Nice gloves, though.
charles said...
Actually, a different church, Richard. But indistinguishable.
Belinda Forbes said...
Thank you sweetpea for making me chuckle!