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08/04/2011
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Polish cemetery - Skull Chapel in Czermna
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Skull Chapel in Czermna
By Kevin S
Do you know what could it be?? Still don’t know?? These are skulls. Skull Chapel in Czermna is a chapel situated in Kudowa Zdrój, Poland. This unusual chapel was built in 1776 by the local parish priest Wacław Tomaszek. It is the mass grave of people who died during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), three Silesian Wars (1740–1763), as well as of people who died because of cholera epidemics and hunger. Together with J. Schmidt and J. Langer, Wacław Tomaszek collected the casualties bones and put them in the chapel. Walls of this small, baroque church are filled with three thousand skulls, and there are also bones of another 21 thousand people hidden in the basement of it. Every bone in this place is authentic. Skulls of people who created the chapel are put in the centre of it and placed on the altar. It is the only such monument in Poland, and one of three in Europe. It is situated in one of the oldest villages in Kłodzko County, near Kudowa Zdrój, in the Lower Silesia, Poland. And this is The Shrine of Skulls In chapel are also situated bones of: reaper Langer, Mayor of Czermna, 2 meters high Swede, and characteristical Tatar’s skull. Skull of Mayor Martinc have hole after bullet.While Seven Years War austrian army was conducted by Mayor Martinc throught Błędne Skały. He was shot for it and his wife was hit by blunt thing when she tried to protect her husband.
French cemetery - Le père Lachaise
Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery of Paris. It’s regarded ad the the most visited cemetery in the world.
Today, over 300,000 bodies are burried there.
Père François de la Chaise, from whom the cemery takes its name, was confessor (as an Jesuit priest) to Louis XIV (the 14th) . He was born in 1624 and died in 1709.
The land was bought by the city in 1804 in order to create a new cemetery outside of the city in order to protect the population against the heath hazards caused by burias.
At the time, it attracted only a few funerals as it was far away and unknown. So the administrators organised the transfer of the remains of Molière and La Fontaine, both of them were already really famous ad poets.
After that, a lot of people wanted to be burried there.
Several famous people are burried there. As examples we have Jacques-Louis David who is a really famous painter of the 18th century and Guillaume Apollinaire is well known as well. He was a famous poet. Some rock stars were also buried there as Morrisson.