Santa Maria della Concecione is the most obscurantist place in Rome

The Capuchin Church is truly the most obscurantist place in Rome. They say you can make contact with dead souls. The interior of the church is decorated with the bones of about 4,000 deceased Capuchin monks. Even candlesticks are made of bones.


Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini is a small church of Capuchins on Via Veneto in Rome, near the Palazzo Barberini and the Triton Fountain. Built by Antonio Casoni in 1626-31, it is decorated with paintings by Guido Reni (Michael Archangel), Caravaggio (Saint Francisco), Pietro da Cortona and Domenicino. The church has several aisles with relics of Catholic saints. After the construction of the church, from the old cemetery of the Capuchin Order, which was located in the area of the Trevi Fountain, the bones of the monks buried there were transferred and placed in the crypt of the church.


Gradually, decorative decorations were made of all six rooms of the crypt. In total, the crypt contains the bones of four thousand monks who died between 1528 and 1870. In the fifth room of the crypt is the skeleton of Princess Barberini, the niece of Pope Sixtus V, who died in childhood. The design of the crypt in the spirit of baroque served as the prototype of the bone storage in Sedlec.




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