Excerpt from The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land From the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. We stopped a moment in a small chapel in the church to admire a picture of St. Michael vanquishing Satan - a picture which is so beautiful that I cannot but think it belongs to the reviled "Renaissance" notwithstanding I believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it - and then we descended into the vast vault underneath. Here was a spectacle for sensitive nerves! Evidently the old masters had been at work in this place. There were six divisions in the apartment, and each division was ornamented with a style of decoration peculiar to itself - and these decorations were in every instance formed of human bones! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.