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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Sedlec ossuary
		The Sedlec ossuary is a small Christian chapel, located in the graveyard of the Church of All Saints in Sedlec[?] a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		In the 13th century the Sedlec became a site of pilgrimage and many people brought their dead and dieing relatives to the town to be buried.
		The ossuary was built around 1511, and a monk, who was apparently half blind, was given the task making more room for bodies in the ground by removing skeletons from the graveyard and placing them in the ossuary thereby creating great pyramids of bones.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/se/Sedlec_ossuary (204 words)

	Sedlec Ossuary - Definition, explanation
		The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278.
		A similar ossuary chapel is Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/se/sedlec_ossuary.php (483 words)

	Kostnice Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Sedlec, Church of Bones
		This is Sedlec’s Church; All Saints ossuary in the Czech Republic.
		Sedlec is a suburb to Kutna Hora, a town in south Bohemia that once flourished due to its mined silver reserve.
		The ossuary itself is situated in the basement of the All Saint’s Chapel.
	www.artgraphica.net /art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm (700 words)

	John Connolly: Bestselling Author
		The Cistercian monastery at Sedlec was very wealthy and very well-known, due in no small part to the discovery of silver on some of its lands, and the presence nearby of the mining centre of Kutna Hora.
		By the early 16th century Sedlec's bones had become so numerous that something had to be done about them, and in 1511 the task of disposing of them was entrusted to one of the monks, so beginning the great work that would become the ossuary at Sedlec.
		So the ossuary at Sedlec is not, perhaps, untypical, but it is unusual in the artistry of its creations, and much of that is due to Rint.
	www.johnconnollybooks.com /journalism_sedlec.html (2024 words)

	Slackertravel.com: Sedlec Ossuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The bone-church of Sedlec was originally a gothic structure from the 14th century.
		The original graveyard was built by monks from Sedlec and was at one time the only cemetery in the region, occupying an area of 3,5 hectares.
		The founding of the cemetery can be traced to Sedlec's abbot Jindrich in the year 1278, who was sent to deliver a message by Premysl Otakar II to Jerusalem.
	www.slackertravel.com /fpe/pictures/Czech_Republic/Sedlec/sedlecthumbs.html (779 words)

	Sedlec ossuary: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Sedlec ossuary is a small Christian chapel, located in the graveyard of the Church of All Saints in Sedlec[?] a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		In the 13th century the Sedlec became a site of pilgrimage and many people brought their dead and dieing relatives to the town to be buried.
		The ossuary was built around 1511, and a monk, who was apparently half blind, was given the task making more room for bodies in the ground by removing skeletons from the graveyard and placing them in the ossuary thereby creating great pyramids of bones.
	www.encyclopedian.com /se/Sedlec-ossuary.html (290 words)

	Sedlec Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278.
		A similar ossuary chapel is Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary (553 words)

	Ossuary
		An ossuary is a chest, building, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
		In first century Judaism, when space for burials was scarce, the use of ossuaries became common because of limited space for tombs; once a body had become skeletonised, the bones were collected and placed in an ossuary.
		In 2002, an ossuary allegedly belonging to St. James the brother of Jesus was brought to public attention; its authenticity is uncertain.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/os/Ossuary.html (135 words)

	Kostnice The Sedlec Ossuary
		Kostnice The Sedlec Ossuary, about 70km eastward from Prague, capital city of Czech Republic, is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora.
		Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278.
		Between 1703 and 1710 a new entrance to Kostnice The Sedlec Ossuary was constructed to support the front wall, which was leaning outward, and the upper chapel was rebuilt.
	www.itravelsingle.com /Kostnice_The_Sedlec_Ossuary.html (441 words)

	The Wired Jester :: The Ossuary at Sedlec: Gone but never forgotten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sedlec is a small suburb of Kutna Hora, which you can get to in about an hour on the train from Prague.
		Sedlec is not actually a church - it's an Ossuary: a tomb.
		Sedlec proves, I think, that religion - and the way we use it (and are used by it?) - is endlessly surprising.
	thewiredjester.blogware.com /blog/_archives/2004/9/28/150320.html (727 words)

	Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An ossuary is a chest, building, well or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
		In 2002, an ossuary allegedly belonging to James the Just was brought to the public's attention by Oded Golan and Andre Lemaire.
		If authentic, the 2,000 year old ossuary which bore the inscription, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." would have been the first archaeological proof that Jesus existed, which until then, the only references to the three men were found in manuscripts.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Ossuary (390 words)

	Prague Compass Magazine - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - a day trip from Prague
		Renowned for both its silver-mining past and the surreal bone ossuary that is one of its greatest tourist attractions, Kutna Hora is a perfect getaway from Prague anytime of the year.
		The Sedlec Ossuary, often reverently referred to as the "bone church", houses the remains of 40,000 people, many of whom died in the Plague during the 14th century.
		The ossuary is housed in the basement of the chapel to the neighboring Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, built by the Cistercian monastery that owned the lands circa 1100.
	www.praguenet.com /compass/number_6/travel.html (1335 words)

	The Ossuary in Sedlec-(The Church Of Bones)
		When he got back he spread the earth over the Sedlec cemetary and thus the cemetary begun to be considered as a piece of sacred land.
		Many brought their dead relatives or friends to be burried in the holy soil of the Sedlec cemetary believing that the holyness of the ground was a sure way to guarantee the burried a place in heaven.
		The ossuary itself dates from 1511 when a half-blind monk was given the task to gather the bones from the abolished graves and putting them in the crypt to make place for new "customers".
	www.angelfire.com /goth/deadthings/bones.html (844 words)

	Srita_Po: The Sedlec Ossuary
		Another less known church (but of major interest to us!) was sittuated in Sedlec - a kind of a suburb to Kutna Hora some 2 kilometres away from the Kutna Hora town centre itself and got heavily expanded with a new Chapel added to the old buildings.
		When he got back he spread the earth over the Sedlec cemetery and thus the cemetery begun to be considered as a piece of sacred land.
		Many brought their dead relatives or friends to be buried in the holy soil of the Sedlec cemetery believing that the holyness of the ground was a sure way to guarantee the buried a place in heaven.
	sritapo.spaces.live.com /Blog/cns!74EF5590B7399F4C!610.entry (832 words)

	Showcase of death: thousands of medieval skeletons make Czech `bone church' a macabre experience - Destinations - All ...
		In the interior of this ossuary, or receptacle for bones, four candelabra are crowned with skulls.
		In 1142 a Cistercian monastery was established in Sedlec in Central Bohemia.
		The property in Sedlec was purchased by the Schwarzenberg family, whose coat Of arms hangs in the chapel and is crafted from bones of different sizes and lengths and surmounted by a crown featuring two skulls offset by hip bones.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_23_38/ai_85060911 (926 words)

	The Sedlec Ossuary presented in Weird section
		The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel decorated with human bones, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, which is a suburb in the outskirts of the Kutna Hora town in the Czech Republic.
		The story begins in 1278, when Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, made a pilgrimage to the holy land.
		By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were buried there and by 1511, it had become necessary to remove the older bones to make place for the new ones.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/the_sedlec_ossuary (556 words)

	A Welsh View: The Ossuary in Sedlec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ossuary in Sedlec is situated in Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic about 44 miles east of the capital Prague.
		The ground surrounding the church in Sedlec is considered holy after it was covered in soil gathered from the Holy Land in the 13th Century.
		For over three and a half centuries the bones lay stored in the ossuary before a local woodcarver, Frantisek Rindt, was given the task of decorating the church with more than 40,000 sets of bones.
	xo.typepad.com /blog/2004/03/the_ossuary_in_.html (324 words)

	Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church) - a photoset on Flickr
		Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church) - a photoset on Flickr
		The consensus: build a chapel on the site and include in it an ossuary (a resting place for bones) to house the 40,000 skeletons cluttering the graveyard.
		He made a chandelier that contained at least one of each bone in the human body, garlands of skulls, candleholders of skulls and crossbones, and lots of other fancy decorations.
	flickr.com /photos/thecnote/sets/72057594096613716 (298 words)

	Photographing the Morbid or An Introduction to Skeleton Photography
		The Sedlec Ossuary, or All Saints Cemetery Church, also known as the “Bone Church”, is a strange and disturbing place and not recommended for the faint-hearted.
		In 1970, the centenary of Rint's contributions, the Surrealist Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer was commissioned to document the ossuary.
		Entrance to the ossuary is 30 Czech Koruna (approximately 70p).
	www.slps.co.uk /articles/articles33.htm (767 words)

	Kinoeye \| Czech Horror: Jan Svankmajer's Kostnice (The Ossuary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the neglected masterpieces produced during Švankmajer's early career is Kostnice (The Ossuary, 1970), a "horror documentary" shot in one of his country's most unique and bleakest monuments, the Sedlec Monastery Ossuary.
		On the other hand, there was the uncomfortable subject of decay and death as well as religion, reflecting a subtle yet defiant opposition to the loud secular optimism of the communist officialdom.
		The theme of ageing, ruin and death appears right from the beginning in the introductory shots of the film: an old man slowly pedalling his creaking bicycle on a potholed road towards the dilapidated chapel; pitted and withered sculptures covered by invading lichens.
	www.kinoeye.org /02/01/uhde01.php (881 words)

	Girls & Corpses
		When he got back he spread the earth over the Sedlec cemetery and thus the cemetery begun to be considered as a piece of sacred land.
		Many brought their dead relatives or friends to be buried in the holy soil of the Sedlec cemetery believing that the holyness of the ground was a sure way to guarantee the buried a place in heaven.
		The chapel is still surrounded by a functioning graveyard and if you take a careful look at the top of its towers you will see that that a "jolly roger", or a skull and crossbones, replace the usual Christian cross.
	www.girlsandcorpses.com /issue7_bonechurch.html (814 words)

	Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Sedlec Ossuary Panorama.
		Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Sedlec Ossuary Panorama.
		This one is of the "bone church" Sedlec Ossuary near Kutna Hora.
		Previously on Neatorama: Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora
	www.neatorama.com /2006/12/08/the-sedlec-ossuary-panorama (161 words)

	Church of All Saints and Sedlec Ossuary - Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
		Church of All Saints and Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora
		The Sedlec Ossuary (kostnice Sedlec) a small Christian chapel, is located beneath the Church of All Saints (Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		Around 1400 a Gothic church, the Church of All Saints, was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during construction.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /czech-republic/sedlec-ossuary-kutna-hora.htm (585 words)

	Ossuary pictures and videos on Webshots
		The Ossuary at Sedlec near Kutna Hora - bone chandelier
		The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Christian chapel decorate...
		The Ossuary, or Beinhaus, or bone church, of Sedlec (Cz...
	www.webshots.com /search?query=Ossuary (351 words)

	Brian.Carnell.Com
		I had never heard of this place before, but it is a chapel in Sedlec, Czech Republic, that is part of a monastery founded in the 12th century.
		Because the monastery abbot had went to Jerusalem and brought back dirt which he sprinkled over the grounds, people wanted to be buried in the graveyard connected with the monastery.
		By the 19th century, with more people clamoring to be buried in the graveyard, the bones of the dead were moved into the chapel and a Czech woodcarver was hired to arrange the bones of upwards of 40,000 (!) people.
	brian.carnell.com /470 (286 words)

	Ankle bone's connected to the doorknob. \| MetaFilter
		Kutná hora-- the city that surrounds Sedlec is really worth a trip, or at least a virtual tour.
		It's not nearly as intricate or as well-preserved as the Sedlec ossuary, but then again it wasn't meant to be anything other than a monument of intimidation.
		sedlec and Kutná hora are creepier, for some reason, very cold inside despite the temperature outside, but that may be me being subjective.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/43434 (1093 words)

	The Ossuary and Other Tales: Jan Svankmajer (Deep Focus Movie Reviews + Weblog)
		Amazingly, the mountains of bones were sorted and rearranged as sculpture by a live-in artist at the end of the 19th Century.
		“The Ossuary” is not animated, but Svankmajer’s approach to the material includes graceful camera moves, surprising jump cuts, and an occasional rapid-fire montage that brings his subject to visual life.
		His great, wry humor is evident in another short, “Historia Naturae (Suita),” which illustrates the food chain in a series of vignettes, set to jazzy music, that involve anatomy and mastication.
	deep-focus.com /dfweblog/2006/10/the_ossuary_and_other_tales_ja.html (367 words)

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