
Memento Mori
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
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The Cabinet of Curiosities
In 1278, King Odaker II of Bohemia sent Henry to Golgotha just outside of Jerusalem's walls. He gathered up some of the earth at his feet and returned to Sedlick, where he scattered the Holy Ground over the Abbey Cemetery. In 1870, a Czech woodcarver named Francis Rint made something of all those bones collecting dust in the ossuary.
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