• @[email protected]
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      capucin- prefix comes from the Latin for “hood,” and by synecdoche means “monks” (who wear hoods)

      Cafe Cappuccino has the same roots.

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        This is correct. There’s actually a little plaque that has this explanation on it before you go into the crypt.

        It’s this funny little Latin lesson before you descend into a skeleton catacomb and are confronted with the living memory that you, too, are temporary.

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      Yeah, that one is definitely a sight to see, if you can stand looking at dead people’s bones.

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        if you can stand looking at dead people’s bones

        I much prefer it to looking at alive people’s bones

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        I’m fine with them. I went through that whole catacomb and then went through the others.

        They have a lot of bony vaults and tunnels and catacombs in Italy.

        And whatever church has the wooden fragments of Christ’s cross.

        I saw those too.

        They look like wood fragments.