Just outside of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic lies a small town, and in that town of Sedlec, there is an Ossuary.
The Black Death came to Sedlec in the mid 1300s taking the lives of over 40,000. Then in 1511, according to legend, the chapel was rebuilt and the job of exhuming and organizing the skeletons from the surrounding graves was give to a blind monk.
A local family, in the year 1870, asked woodcarver František Rint, to remodel the old chapel and turn it into an Ossuary to honor those lost in the plague. Rint did just that, using the bones of the lost, still lying in the piles created by the blind monk, to decorate the interior.
Rint adorned the inside of the old chapel with sculptures, reliefs, and even a magnificent chandelier, all made of human bones. It is said that every bone in the human body is in that chandelier.
So these bones, the product of a devastating disease, are now art.
Are the souls of those inshrined here happy and at peace, or do they haunt this place to this day?
That is a question that I will not answer. . . . . . . .
. . . . . You will have to come here. Stand amongst them. And decide for yourself!