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14 April, 2020 5:24 am

Rome churches: Santa Maria Immacolata

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Rome, the Eternal city, can be defined in many ways which more often than not end up mirroring a welter of contradictions.
Via Veneto for instance where la dolce vita began almost 50 years ago has its own mystical side too: a church called Santa Maria Immacolata which features an ossuary known as the Capuchin Crypt .

A place that some of you may find a little bit morbid as it has been entirely decorated with the bones of over 4000 Capuchin friars who lived and died in Rome from 1520 to 1870.

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Actually it’s nothing of the sort, but just the friars’ way of exorcising death and giving the world an important message: the body is just a shell , the fragile house where the soul lives only for a very short time.
As a matter of fact there are five bone-made crypts and they can be visited only by previous appointment.
You may go and ask one of the keepers (from 9:oo to 12:00; from 15:00 to 18:00) or send an email to the official website.

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