The Kaplica Czaszek (Chapel of the Skulls) is located between St Bartholomew's church and the Polish village of Czermna. Thousands of human skulls and bones decorate the walls and ceiling of the church. The chapel was built in 1776, when America was declaring its independence from England. Polish people of Czernma are surviving with acute intestinal infections caused by the ingestion of contaminated water or food and hunger.
They are victims of war or the Plague. Most likely, it is a mass grave of people who died during the Thirty Years' War, "1618-1648." The plague that broke out during the war and the Three Silesian Wars (1740-63) and other military conflicts.
The urban-looking Kaplica Czaszek is garnished with 21,000 human skeletons and thousands of Skulls. Today, the skulls are installed and include a Tartar warrior's skull, the Czermana mayor and his wife, a skull with bullet holes, a skull swiss-cheeseed by syphilis, and even the skull of a giant. Beside these special skulls are those of the priest and the grave digger themselves, presiding proudly over the chapel of Skulls they created and now call their final resting place.
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