Kutná Hora - The Bone Church

I was a part of a group of six students from IBTS who traveled one hour by train to a town east of Prague called, Kutná Hora. We spent the day walking around the town. The first stop was the Kostnice Ossuary, or what I call the Bone Church. This is a chapel built in 1511 to house bones that began to pile up after the plague. In 1870 František Rint was given free reign to do whatever he wanted with the bones from about 40,000 people. He went wild!

You go down into the chapel and suddenly the phrase, "heads up," takes on a whole new meaning!

This chandelier contains every bone in the human body!

I was reminded of Gimli in Peter Jackson's version of the "Return of the King" for some reason.

This guy had far too much time on his hands!