#crypt #monks #death Join me for a bit of a different walk around the Capuchin Crypt in Brno, Czech Republic. Where we'll see around 30 mummified monks, and a saint preserved in wax that has her own blood in a vial!
Not in the least bit eerie or scary. I found myself feeling warm and loving toward these deceased brothers who embrace poverty and keep their vows even in death. Very beautiful video indeed.
great video mate its wierd to think they once walked amongst the living.... the things they must have seen, an entirely different world from ours. keep up the good work
Interesting to see! I visited the capuchin crypts in Rome, the walls and ceiling’s are decorated with bones, even the light fittings are made of bones , it’s a sight to see! The same words are shown there too “as you are now we once were, as we are now you shall be”
Sorry I missed your lives, Dan!! I was chatting with my Mum!! Some folk will find this macabre, but not me!! This is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!! I would love to see this in person!! Thanks for sharing this, Dan!! XXXX 👍💖
The surprise sneeze and bless you at the end is perfect unintentional comic relief to end this on after how heavy it is seeing this crypt. I have never seen anything like it, fascinating!
This is amazing.being from gibraltar and being beside spain i can tell you its standard practice shame i dont hwve a car some amazing places in spain i remeber as a little girl going to a church in seville and the altar was a coffin with a nun emtombed which hadnt decayed and another church with a mummified hand with lots of rings its amazing and sinister at the same time hopefully when j can walk again and get a car ill take you guys to some of those places!
Yes that was a bit different, I wondered if there was an odor there, hopefully not!, They were peaceful looking, , thanks for sharing the tour. Have a great weekend, stay safe. 😊🌻🌹
I'm new to your channel thankyou for the tour found it a little macabre . But fascinating how some of them were just laid on the floor.Wuth bricks for pillows.Looking forward to the next one👍
We have a strange attraction to see those who have gone before us, but these monks were certainly not left to rest in peace. I couldn’t work out which was the oldest mummy, but wonder whether the religion is still active and if monks are still layed to rest in a similar way somewhere else. It was an amazing visit, and I am grateful you took us with you on this walk….fascinating. Loved the candle fountain outside too! Warm regards!
In the U.K. 🇬🇧 the Capuchin monks are buried , usually in cemetery attached to their monastery, failing that, in a section of a cemetery for Catholic burials.
Back then the crypt wouldn’t be a tourist attraction. It wasn’t open to the public so “putting them on display” wasn’t really the intention. Rather due to the vow of poverty they would re use coffins and wooden coffins tend to rot when put in the ground hence why they aren’t buried.
In America, you get buried but nobody comes to visit your grave. So I would say, the system they have in Europe is better as the dead are not forgotten.
Since you’re not dead, you have no idea if they have negative or for that matter, ANY feelings about it. Just remember tho, that just because a cultures way of dealing with their dead isn’t the same as yours, that in NO WAY makes theirs disrespectful.
Well, they’re not resting, they are dead. And I’d like to think that for educational purposes, they would rather be on display, then just be rotting in the ground somewhere.
Rad, gd mrng, god bless the team members, respect, r.i.p.w.the angel in this chapel of peaceful, quiet area, this video lk great, amazing, wonderful, interesting. Frm. Miss. Rad.
A question, Dan: why are some of the monks laid out in the open whilst others are under glass? Has it something to do with their position in the higher achy ie senior Abbot etc?? Just curiosity. I’m enjoying your vids. So fascinating!!
Hi Dan, this is so exciting seeing the dead bodies lying there and to think about their past and their lives. You should consider a travel to Sicily and there to the Capuchin Crypt in Milan. There are a lot of mummies showed, most of them "standing" at the walls, some lying in niches and some in coffins - open coffins, some of them from the 15th century. First the crypt was reserved for the burials of monks, but later many people wanted to be buried near them in hope to be nearer to God. There is a section for men, for women, for children, even confessions such as teachers. And you can also see what is said to be the most beautiful mummy ever: Rosalia Lombardo, who died in the 1920s when she was two years old. Her father let her be embalmed with a special recipe that was created by a chemic named Salafia. You can only see her head, but some time ago some scientists made an X-Ray, and they found that all inner organs are still there.
@@deadgoodwalks You're welcome, you will love it! I would like to go there on my own, but I have two cats, and I do not have the heart to give them into a shelter to make a longer journey. The place is absolutely amazing. For quite some time the living relatives visited their dead and even gave them new clothes in the past.
Religious do not fear death and many orders have their own cemeteries. I notice that in areas with little fertile land, exhumation and placement in some form of ossuary is common. Medieval churches often had ossuaries as graves were reused. Much more respectful to lay them out and leave them to rest.
They actually intended for this, as a reliquary, but may well have felt disrespected to be treated more as museum pieces instead of companions in worship. It would be like similarly irreligious people keeping living traditionally religious people in a zoo. And scantily clad girls! They’d have chased them out!
