Awareness of transience accompanies every human being. Can its universality be attractive? It turns out that yes. An example is created in the 18th century in Kudowa-Zdroju Skull Chapel. Its originator and executor, Rev. Waclaw Tomaszek, decided to build a room whose walls would be lined with the remains of the dead. It took him eight years just to collect, disinfect and arrange them. Once a year from August 14 to 15, a mass for all the dead is celebrated in the Chapel. This place commemorates the victims of the Thirty Years' War and the cholera epidemic, whose remains Fr. Tomaszek found in huge numbers. This is the only site of its kind in the country. There are two other similar sites in Europe.
22.02.2016
