Catacombs of San Gaudioso and San Gennaro, Campania, Naples, Italy (January 2023)
“Entering a world where the nobility and clergy of the 17th Century were once buried. The burial of the corpses involved ‘draining’ in which the bodies were placed in niches and drained of their fluids (a well known expletive derives from this ritual: “Puozze scula”, or “may your life drain away”, i.e. may you die). […]