Catacombs part one

NOTE: No photography was allowed inside the Crypts. Please Forgive any miss spellings or short bullet points.

Crypts of the Capuchins notes:
-St Francis, 90Ad. As a teen he left family by stripping naked in the center of town and handing his clothes to his father to become a monk.
-3 monk vows... obedience, poverty, selabit.
- 16 hundreds they move their poor church (because of rats) to current location. Head munk asked his brother to build them a church.
*Traveling to new church came with his 3,000 monk skeletons.
- Message: children bones on ceiling... deaths will cut us down. Time flies... pun with bones.
2nd cript: Capuchins did all the decorating.
- mummification, believe a pure soul does not decay.!
Soil: They buried their dead in jerusilim holy soil and after 30 years bodies are dug up, dried, boiled and stuck on the wall. Up until 1870 (Italy was unified at this time) new leader said no more. Makes it illegal to even replace a broken one.

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