Incredible skeletal remains of Catholic saints still dripping in gems and jewellery discovered by 'Indiana Bones' explorer
While
researching and writing another book on charnel houses, art historian,
Paul
Koudounaris, stumbled upon an amazing, if macabre, collection of 400
year-old, heavily jewel-encrusted skeletons hidden away in some of the most secretive religious establishments in Europe. His expedition and the resulting photographs of dozens of these relics is now being revealed in his new book, Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular
Saints from the Catacombs. This is the first time that photographs of the skeletons have been published.
Those were amazing pictures. Wonder what those nuns were thinking about as they wove jewels and cloth around the bones...
ReplyDeleteJust mind boggling.
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