Since the nearby cemetery was full, they picked up the bones and created a "doss house" for them, where they have to live in a co-tenancy. They decorated with paintings and sculptures. The floor plan has an octagonal shape, and the central nave has several adjacent chapels. Built, rebuilt, reconstructed, destroyed, and rebuilt again. San Bernardino alle Ossa is a church erected in mannerist style and has the usual story. It certainly is an interesting experience that makes you think more deeply about life.
They also have pamphlets and an area to make a donation as you enter. While the theories abound on this ossuary - I would suggest getting your information from their official website. Rich and poor, beautiful or homely - we are indistinguishable and in the end the same. I was at a larger "bone church" in Poland once and the story of the church is on the wall - created by monks - they wanted to show that in death, we are all the same. Why do this? In reading the reviews I see numerous theories perhaps obtained from a variety of guidebooks.
The skulls encased above the door are from executed prisoners. The official site shares information stating that when the nearby Brolo hospital became defunct, they took the bones of the deceased from the nearby cemetery to create the ossuary. Why so many variations of the story? Maybe that is part of the allure of a "bone chapel". In reading some of the reviews here - I am struck by the diversity of information.
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