LOOK WHAT WAS FOUND HIDDEN DEEPLY AWAY UNDER THE Vatican! THEY DID NOT EVEN KNOW UT WAS THERE???

#cosmictv But why - why would they be decorated with such luxury? Were they actually buried like this, or did something else happen? Well, they aren’t actually saints in the strict sense, though some of them may be early Christian martyrs. During the 15th century, western Europe was shaken by the Beeldenstorm - the statue fury - a term used for outbreaks of destruction of religious image. During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions. As the Catholic churches were systematically stripped of their icons, the Vatican came up with a rather strange solution. They ordered that thousands of skeletons be exhumed from the catacombs beneath Rome and installed in towns throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Few, if any, of the corpses belonged to people of any religious significance, but they were decorated like saints. Please share and remember to Comment, Like and Subscribe for more!