Kutna Hora [Czech Republic, 1992]

During the Middle Ages, a handful of earth from Golgotha was scattered in a churchyard in the small Central Bohemian town of Kutna Hora. Over the following centuries, the cemetery became such a popular burial place that by the 1800s the remains of some 40,000 disinterred people had piled up in the cellar. To tidy the place up, a monk was commissioned to create artworks, such as this monstrance, from the bones.