![]() ![]() ![]() Remember that they didn't know who these people were, I even found an account at one point in time where they sent a group of psychics down into the Roman catacombs to go into a trance and start pointing at skeletons. "They were never canonized in the traditional sense. ![]() When they rediscovered the Roman catacombs they thought these bodies must all date to old Roman times and they figured these must be early Christian martyrs, but in fact, Romans were buried down in those catacombs and Jews were as well…They could very well have been sending skeletons of shoe salesman to Christian churches and having people worship them." On the identities of these jewel-encrusted skeletons: The result of his travels is his new photo book, "Heavenly Bodies."Īs part of our series, Picture This, Koudounaris joins us in studio to talk about his photographs of the catacomb saints.Ĭheck out more of Koudounaris' catacomb pictures on KPCC's AudioVision Interview Highlights They came to be known as the catacomb saints, and their bones were dispatched to Catholic churches throughout Europe. Paul Koudounaris had the rare chance to spend time with these spectacular skeletons. In 1578, the remains of thousands of people thought to be Christian martyrs were discovered deep underground in Rome. ![]()
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