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Capela dos Ossos: The Church the Franciscans Built from the Dead

Three Franciscan monks exhumed 5,000 skeletons from Évora's cemeteries and mortared them into the walls of a chapel. The door inscription still waits.

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Capela dos Ossos: The Church the Franciscans Built from the Dead

Portugal

Bone chapels, earthquake ruins, and the launch point of maritime empires built on slavery. Portugal started the Age of Exploration — and its consequences.
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