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Over 4,000 friars' bones are buried in the crypts of Capuchin friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Mark Twain wrote about the crypt in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad when he wrote, “I have never seen anything more striking.” Granted, it was to his taste. Twain asked a monk what would happen to him when he died, and the monk replied, “We must all lie here at last.” Thousands of Capuchin friars have died in Rome between 1528 and 1870 and are still buried, hanging, or otherwise adorning the crypt.
