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Duomo di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral - Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) , Italy

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Duomo di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral - Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) , Italy

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Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno or Çimiteio de Stagén en Genovés

Found 1851

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Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno or Çimiteio de Stagén en Genovés (Génova) ,Italy

Found 1851

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Igreja Nissan Senhora da Consolação (São Paulo) ,Brasil

1799/1801 (Early Church)

1909/1959 (Current Church)

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Duomo di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral - Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan), Italy

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Duomo di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral - Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) , Italy

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Igreja De São Francisco De Paula , (Rio De Janeiro) , Brasil

Found 7 March 1865

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Fiume Road National Graveyard

Official Name: Fiumei úti Nemzeti Sírkert , (Budapest) , Hungary

Founded 1847

The cemetery's first burial took place some two years after its opening, in 1849. Since then numerous Hungarian notables (statesmen, writers, sculptors, architects, artists, composers, scientists, actors and actresses etc.) have been interred there, several of them in ornate tombs or mausoleums…

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Duomo Di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral - Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) , Italy

Statue of “St Bartholomew skinned”, made by the sculptor Marco d’Agrate in 1562 for the Veneranda Fabbrica of the Duomo, St Bartholomew is one of Christ’s twelve apostles, executed for his Christian faith, portrayed here based on how he is identified by iconography following the agony suffered.

The Saint, skinned alive, carries what looks like a drape on his shoulders and around his body. But it is his skin; clear reference to the torture inflicted. Up until the XIII-XIV century, the apostle was portrayed dressed holding a book and a knife; alluding to the Gospel proclaimed and martyrdom suffered. They started to portray his agony from the Renaissance onwards. Whereas the saint’s icon with his own skin removed from his flesh was finally sanctified after Michelangelo (XVI century) portrayed him that way in the Universal Judgement in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

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Duomo Di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral -Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) , Italy

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Duomo Di Milano or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Milan) ,Italy

The bronze door was designed by Italian sculptor Ludovico Pogliaghi in 1894-1908

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Church of Saint Joseph (Chiesa di San Giuseppe) Milan , Italy

San Giuseppe is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Construction was begun in 1607 and completed in 1630. The architect was Francesco Maria Richini.[1] The right side of the church overlooks Via Andegari, after a family with this name. It seems that the title of the street comes from the name of a family known as the "Andegardi" or "undegardi".

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San Bernardino alle Ossa (Milán) Italy

The church's origins date to 1145, when a hospital and a cemetery were built in front of the basilica of Santo Stefano Maggiore. In 1210 a chamber was built to house bones from the cemetery, next to which a church was built in 1269. It was restored for the first time in 1679 by Giovanni Andrea Biffi, who modified the façade and decorated the walls of the ossuary with human skulls and tibiae.

The church was destroyed in 1712; it was replaced by a new edifice designed by Carlo Giuseppe Merlo, featuring a central plan and larger size reflecting the increasing popularity of the ossuary. The new church, connected to the former one by an ambulatory, was dedicated to St. Bernardino of Siena.

The façade was completed in 1776.

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Cemiterio São Paulo,Cardenal Arcoverde (São Paulo) Brasil

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Cimiterio São Paulo,Cardenal Arcoverde (Sao Paulo) Brasil

Founded 1926

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Cementerio Museo San Pedro (Medellín,Antioquia) Colombia

Founded 22 September 1842