...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Palermo's Cappucin Catacombs: Warning! Nightmare Alert!
We all like to play
dress-up, whether as adults—Halloween--or as children, with
friends, siblings, playmates, dolls and toys. But what if you could
play dress-up with corpses and cadavers, in a special and safe place,
as the Cappucin monks did in Palermo, not all that long ago?! What a
wondersome thing! And so it has been preserved, the Cappucin
Catacombs, in some rightly dead part of the city, to which we
ventured in the waning hours of our first day in the capital city. We
had driven over through the miles and miles of tunnels and bridges to
Palermo on May 12, after having taken a rest day May 11, after our
Aeolian cruise. We found the appointed sosta, somewhere in the way
west of Palermo, a truly chaotic city, on bus route 107. In the few
hours of remaining daylight, we (Vicki) thought it would be really
cool to see the dressed-up corpses and cadavers. I will not speculate upon the origin of this idea except to note that a recent Rickie
Stevie blog post had dealt with the Cappucin Catacombs. He is working
on a guide to Sicily. Soon, millions of American tourists will have
this same wondersome experience! What a wondersome thought!
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GRUESOME! I think we'll stick to the skeleton art in Rome.
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