First of all I would like to thank you, Cee, for being featured last week! I’m honoured!

This week is a bit more grim…for Joints I cannot stop thinking of my visit to Rome and the Crypt of the Capuchins.

My reaction on entering this ossuary, was at first a bit violent…but after walking the thirty metre long corridor with all niches decorated with human bones and skulls, the hanging lamps made of vertebrae and whole skeletons standing watch – I got used to it and could almost admire the fantastic patterns once made by the monks. I read somewhere that the bones of about 4000 monks were used to build this scenery, starting in the 17th century and finished not until the end of the 19th century.

”What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.” This is the memento mori written down here, in three languages.

As no one was allowed to take photos, I bought some cards and photographed them instead. This is the Crypt of Skulls.