CHAPEL MADE OF BONES Oldest Ossuary In Portugal

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In the late 16th century, over 5,000 medieval corpses were dug up from Evoras cemetery. The graveyards were full and the Franciscan monks needed to make way for more bodies…

Their skeletons were brought to the chapel and stacked upon each other, filling the entire room to the ceiling, creating multiple designs and patterns from each body part.

Two desiccated bodies lay on beds, one is that of a child, cursed, so that they would never decompose.

These places are known as an Ossuary, many of these can be found around the world, usually created after a mass death.

Join us somewhere we can realise the transience of material things and the undeniable presence of death…

Above the chapel door reads ‘We bones, are here, waiting for you’

Above alter reads ‘I die in the light’ & ‘Better is the day of death than the day of birth’

In the white coffin are the bones of three of the monks who founded the church in the 13th century.

Poem by Padre António da Ascenção

“Where are you going in such a hurry traveler? Pause… do not advance your travel; You have no greater concern Than this one: that on which you focus your sight.
Recall how many have passed from this world, Reflect on your similar end, There is good reason to reflect If only all did the same.
Ponder, you so influenced by fate, Among all the many concerns of the world, So little do you reflect on death;
If by chance you glance at this place, Stop… for the sake of your journey, The more you pause, the further on your journey you will be.”

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