CHAPEL OF THE SKULLS
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Located in a complex that includes a church, a seventeenth-century bell tower and a cemetery, this small chapel is entirely lined with 3,000 skulls and countless human bones, which belonged to victims of the Seven Years' War and the epidemics of the second half of the eighteenth century. There are another 21,000 in the chapel's crypts. It was Wacław Tomaszek, that he collected these bones, between 1776 and 1804, helped by the gravedigger J. Langer. His skull and that of the gravedigger are of course there, according to their last wishes.
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Les murs et le plafond de la chapelle sont bordés de 3 mille crânes et os humains. Une autre douzaine (20-30 mille) restes de personnes se trouvent sous le plancher.
La chapelle a été construite en 1776 par le prêtre Wacław Tomaszek. Une fois par an, à minuit, du 14 au 15 août, la Sainte Messe est célébrée dans la bas. pour tous ceux qui s'y reposent et pour tous ceux qui sont morts à la suite d'une maladie ou à la suite d'accidents malheureux.
La Chapel est la seule installation de ce type en Pologne et l'une des trois en Europe.