JEWELED SKELETONS 📿💀💎💎⛪

Thousands of 400 years old human skeletons, each adorned in gold.silver and precious gems.were hidden away in church vaults, storage units and containers all over Europe before being recently discovered by paul koudounaris.

The skeletons were dug up from roman catacombs in the16th century and ,on the orders of the vatican,were given fictitious names and certificates identifying them as early Christian martyrs. They were then sent to catholic churches in Germany, Australia and Switzerland to replace religious relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the protestant reformation. The skeletons were dressed in ornate costumes and lavishly decorated, mostly by nuns because such was their supposed status they could be handled only by someone who had taken a scared vow to the church. Some corpes took five years to decorate with hundreds of sparkling jewels and several pounds💎👑 of gold and silver. The jewels alone are worth thousands of dollars.
Many were true works of art,to construct the relic of st.Deodatus in rheunau ,Switzerland, awqx face was molded over the upper half of the skull and a fabric wrap was used to creat a mouth in order to make the corpse look more lifelike. By the 19th century, the fake saints had been exposed amd were considered an embarrassment to the catholic church. Most of them were removed from display,stripped of their honors and locked away in containers for safe keeping. There they remained,largely forgotten until paul koudounaris found their secret hideaways during his three year travel of European churches and ossuaries.He hunted down and photographed dozens of the skeletons to tell the amazing story of the jewels encrusted skeletons of the catholic church. ⛪💎