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Decorazione della volta a orologio, Corridoio
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Cimitero dei Cappuccini
Cemetery of the Capuchins
Cimetiere des Capucins
Friedhof der Kapuziner
Via Veneti, 27
Roma Italy
The crypt is located just under Santa Maria della Concezione, a church commissioned by Pope Urban XIII in 1626. The pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was of the Capuchin order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin monks exhumed and transferred from the friary Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt. The crypt now contains the remains of 4,000 monks buried between 1500-1870, during which time the Papal States permitted burial in and under churches. The underground crypt is divided into five chapels lit only by dim natural light seeping in through cracks, and small fluorescent lamps which cast strange shadows.
"What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you will be."
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