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  2. Capuchin Crypt - Wikipedia

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    Capuchin Crypt in Rome, Italy Capuchin Crypt. The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 3,700 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order. [1]

  3. Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was a member of the Capuchin order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt. The underground crypt is divided into five chapels, lit only by dim natural light seeping in through cracks, and small fluorescent lamps.

  4. Order of Friars Minor Capuchin - Wikipedia

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    The crypt is located just under the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome, a church commissioned by Pope Urban VIII in 1626. The pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was of the Capuchin Order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary on the Via dei Lucchesi to the ...

  5. Catacombe dei Cappuccini - Wikipedia

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    The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.

  6. Catacombs - Wikipedia

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    Mine workings were used at end of the 18th century and had no religious purpose other than as an ossuary for storing the bones of cleared graveyards. Greece – Catacombs of Milos; Italy – Catacombs of Rome; Catacombs of Naples; Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Catacombs of Syracuse and others; Israel – Beit She'arim necropolis [6]

  7. Santa Maria al Monte dei Cappuccini, Turin - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1590, with construction underway, the Capuchin friars were able to move into the monastery, and in 1596 were authorised to officiate at Mass while the church was still under construction. Two years later, work came to a halt at the level of the cornice, both due to a lack of funds and the arrival of the plague in Turin.

  8. Capuchin Friary, Rapperswil - Wikipedia

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    In November 1992 the monastery opened its doors for guests, both men and women, to participate for at least one week with the monastic community. In addition, the Swiss chapter of the order allowed the community to seek new forms of prayer and liturgy. As of 2010, nine brothers and two nuns (Orders of Baldegg and Menzingen) are living in the ...

  9. Capuchin Poor Clares - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Capuchin Poor Clares have monasteries in Wilmington, Delaware, Amarillo, Texas, Alamo, Texas, Denver, Colorado, and Pueblo, Colorado. At Our Lady of Light Monastery in Denver there are nine professed sisters. The monastery in Denver was founded by Capuchin Poor Clare sisters from Irapuato in central Mexico in 1988. In ...