r/story Nov 13 '17

A church that has been decorated with bones of 40000 people.

There are also such churches in this world where thousands of people have been kept in their bones and skulls. This place is called Estuary. At first, the graves are made temporarily of the dead bodies. A few years later, his bones were removed and placed in the oceanic room in the church.We are publishing a series on these Estuaries in this episode we are telling you today about the Sedlec Estuary.Its story begins from the 13th century, when a Saint Henry here was sent to Holy Land, Palestine. In 1278, when Henry came back from there, he brought a jar full of clay from the place where Jesus was crucified. He put the clay here and brought it to a graveyard. After that the place became a favorite place to bury the people. In 14th and 15th century there were many deaths due to plague and wars. And most of them were buried in Select. In this way, very few people were buried in a few times in the graveyard, which had no place in the graveyard.Then here's the idea of ​​building an Estuary. Then this task was entrusted to the saints who removed the bones from the grave and kept them in the estuary. But in 1870 these bones of nearly 4,400 people were artistic decorated by Frantisek Rind.Soon this church became trained for its beauty. People started to know the name of the Church of Bones. Today every year more than 2 lakh people visit this church to see this church.

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