"What you are now, we used to be, what we are now, you soon will be"
That was the poem that ushered us into a series of small crypts below the Cappucin church this afternoon. Inside we stepped into the most amazing chapels i have ever seen. All of the decorations, the designs on the ceilings, the altars, everthing was made out of the bones of over four thousand monks. It seems like a very strange and rather morbid concept, but the designs were quite beautiful, and this order of monks beleive that this type of decoration makes us remember that we are mortal and that we all share a common fate (as the lines at the begining indicated). I thought it was so cool, and I bought postcards so when I get home remind me to show you what they looked like!