Sedlec

Off by train to Sedlec and to Kutna hora this morning, about 55 minutes East of Prague by Train.

Sedlec is like a small suburb of Kutna hora and has two very distinctive Churches, one a monestary and the other, an ossuary, or a church decorated with human bones from its adjacent graveyard...

The ossuary is located in the All Saints' Chapel which was built around 1400. The chapel is still surrounded by a functioning graveyard and if you take a careful look at the top of its towers(pix) you will see that that a "jolly roger", or a skull and crossbones, replaces the usual Christian cross. 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". He filled the basement of the Church and arranged them in shapes of crests, shields, and other sculptures.

Here is a link that will let you see inside the Ossuary... amazing.

http://www.virtualtravel.cz/kutna-hora/kostnice-sedlec/kostnice-sedlec.html

The pictures below are of the nearby Monastery, built in 1142.