What you are now, we once were...

...what we are now, you shall be.

Today, we started out the day and went to the Basilica of Saint Clement.  That is one of the oldest christian buildings in the world.  It was built on the foundation of a building destroyed in the great fire in Rome in 64 AD.  Then was rebuilt in the 2nd Century and then another was built on top of that one in the 4th Century.  There was a beautiful mosaic at the front of the church with deep rich colors.  Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take pictures inside the church.

Then we headed to the Crypt of the Capuchin Monks.  That was soooo awesome and creepy.  It is like a museum where they mention many things about who the Capuchin Monks are and what they do and things like that, and then you get to the crypt and it is a hallway where each of the rooms are decorated with bones. Human bones, everywhere.  There was one room that probably had at least 100 skulls around the place.  The crypts were decorated like that around the 1600s and there is some disagreement with who is actually the one who did it.  In on of the crypts is an inscription with the words of the title and first line of this blog entry.

We weren't allowed to take pictures of the crypt either, but I bought a postcard that has a picture of one of the rooms.