10-25-2005, 03:31 PM
<b>மன்னிக்கவும் அங்கிலத்தில் அந்த சேர்ச் பற்றி போடுவதற்கு
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction,
and how about 70 kilometers east the
capital of the Czech Republic, Prague,
lies a small town called Sedlec.
It might have been an ordinary enough town,
if not for its extraordinary church.
The inside of this church is
decorated with artworks made of real human bones.
The story begins in 1218, when a certain
Abbot Henry made a pilgrimage to the
holy land and brought back a jar full of
soil from cemetery, which he spread over
the Church. As a result the church
came to be regarded as more sacred and
turned into a popular burial spot.
By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were
buried there and by 1511, it had become
necessary to remove the older bones to
make place for the new ones.
These later became the material
for the macabre creations.
In 1870 a local woodcarver was hired by
the Duke of Shwartzenberg to decorate the
inside of the church with the human remains (approximately 40,000 sets of human bones).
Now it is one of the most extraordinary
church in the whole world
Boney Church - isn't it morbidly amazing???....</b>
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction,
and how about 70 kilometers east the
capital of the Czech Republic, Prague,
lies a small town called Sedlec.
It might have been an ordinary enough town,
if not for its extraordinary church.
The inside of this church is
decorated with artworks made of real human bones.
The story begins in 1218, when a certain
Abbot Henry made a pilgrimage to the
holy land and brought back a jar full of
soil from cemetery, which he spread over
the Church. As a result the church
came to be regarded as more sacred and
turned into a popular burial spot.
By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were
buried there and by 1511, it had become
necessary to remove the older bones to
make place for the new ones.
These later became the material
for the macabre creations.
In 1870 a local woodcarver was hired by
the Duke of Shwartzenberg to decorate the
inside of the church with the human remains (approximately 40,000 sets of human bones).
Now it is one of the most extraordinary
church in the whole world
Boney Church - isn't it morbidly amazing???....</b>
<b> .. .. !!</b>

