Pilgrimage Church of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny
Křtiny: Santini’s Pearl of Moravia
The picturesque Moravian Karst northeast of Brno holds an important pilgrimage place – Křtiny. Come and see for yourself why its nickname, the Pearl of Moravia, is well-deserved. Discover the beauty of the Baroque Church of the Holy Name of Mary, designed by master architect Jan Santini-Aichel, who built dozens of important buildings in the Baroque-Gothic style in Bohemia and Moravia. There you will see a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary of Křtiny and delight in the regalia. Other attractions include a carillon. In the crypt below the church is a vast ossuary where a special discovery was made in the early 1990s: twelve skulls painted with laurel wreaths and the letter T.
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This unique Moravian ossuary is located next to the Church of St. James in Brno and is the second largest in Europe, the chilling primacy is held by the Paris ossuary. It was discovered during a land survey in 2001 and the number of people buried there is estimated at more than 50,000. Anthropological analyses showed that it was a place of burial of victims of plague and cholera, the Thirty Years' War and the Swedish siege.
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