Capuchin Crypt 

Capuchin Crypt 

The crypt of the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini church, a.k.a. the Capuchin Crypt in Rome, is beautifully and intricately decorated with the skeletal remains of 4,000 humans. A placard addressed to those who enter the crypt reads, "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be."

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