Catacombs di San Gaudioso

Naples - Skull day

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May 4th 2013
Today was skull day, all the way. Several locations are prime for viewing skulls from the cult of the souls in Purgatory. As outlined in my tour materials, those who could not afford a proper burial in a church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were buried in a large grave in the hypogeum, the space below the main hall of the church. The unnamed bones gave rise to the cult, who took care ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more