Of all the places you might find the Capuchin crypt, the Via Veneto in Rome seems to be the unlikeliest location. But amid this district of four star hotels, expensive restaurants and swanky habitués, ...

Here’s one of my favorite European memories illustrating how, if you know where to look, you can find human bones on display in many corners of the continent. Deep under the streets of Paris, I was ...

Rome is full of religious sites, what’s so special about this one? It displays the skeletal remains of about 4,000 people. Oh, like the catacombs?Contrary to popular belief, Rome’s catacombs, out in ...

Among the many beautiful and historical churches of Rome, there is the Church of Holy Mary of the Conception of the Capuchins. Among other spiritual treasures, the church holds the famous painting of ...

A Mass for the souls in purgatory is being said every Monday this month in the crypt of the Capuchin church, Floriana, with rosary at 6 p.m., followed by Mass. A Mass for the souls in purgatory is ...

A recent makeover has turned what was once just a creepy crypt beneath the Capuchin church into a Franciscan monk 'experience', complete with displays of the knotted whips with which the friars liked ...