Connected Sites
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Monastery of San Francisco
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Isola Sant'Ariano
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"There's plenty of light and height in most of the areas, and temperatures inside are comfortable, making it easy to spend a few hours gazing at the sheer variety of impressive ossuaries, tunnels, inscriptions and symbolic decorations."
See www.jns.org
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The Dominican and Franciscan churches have subterranean ossuaries
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Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini
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"The remains of unidentified soldiers are sometimes grouped together in ossuaries." (crit iii)
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Ceramic chest found at Burana
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Igreja de Sao Francisco
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At Great Meteoron Monastery
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Tamaudun, royal tomb, according to Ryukyuan tradition, the royal remains would only be kept in central compartment for a limited time, after which the bones were washed and entombed in the north and south compartments - so technically it is also an ossuary.
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