Capuchin Crypt - Dirty Annie's - Cross Stitch Pattern

  stitch count: 103x150 Model was stitched on 32ct Sea Lavender linen from Barefoot Needle Art The Capuchin Crypt is located beneath the church of Santa Maria Della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto  in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 3,700 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order. The Catholic order insists that the display is not meant to be macabre, but a silent reminder of the swift passage of life on Earth and our own mortality.  When the friars arrived at the church in 1631, moving from the old monastery, they brought 300 cartloads of the remains of deceased friars. The soil in the crypt was brought from Jerusalem, by order of Pope Urban VIII.  The bones were arranged along the walls, and the friars began to bury their own dead there, as well as the bodies of poor Romans, whose tomb was under the floor of the present Mass chapel. Here the Capuchins would come to pray and reflect each evening before retiring for the night. The crypt no