We looked at Bone churches on Wednesday and I thought I would look in to them and try to find one that I liked. After a couple minutes of searching I found this beautiful place. San Bernardino alle Ossa is a bone church in Milan Italy that has a small footprint, but a huge amount of bones. From floor to ceiling there are bones stacked from corpses collected from the nearby hospital. The church was built in the 13th century and is decorated with beautiful paintings by Sebastiano Ricci. One of the coolest features of the church is the giant cross made up of bones on one of the walls of the church. If I ever get a chance to visit Italy this place is most definitely on my to do list! |
| Here you can see the huge cross on the wall. |
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/san-bernardino-alle-ossa
Yuck, that is so creepy! However, I guess with over half the population dead because of the plague, it is a good allocation of a growing Medieval resource: bones!!
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