«Rosalia Lombardo: The most beautiful mummy in the world .."

Rosalia Lombardo: The most beautiful mummy in the world ..

Rosalia Lombardo was called and there was a beautiful girl, who died at just two years, from respiratory infection in 1920 in Palermo, Sicily. In this town, the Italian South, then the usual embalming of dead bodies and putting them in the catacombs of the Capuchin monks of the monastery, which until today is a macabre museum of death. The microclimate in the crypt ensure that the corpses kept in excellent condition. Her father Rosalia Lambardo, could not bear to let go of the little girl and persuaded the monks of the Capuchin monastery in Palermo give him a place in the underground crypt, their Catacombe dei Cappuccini. That way you could visit her and see her whenever he wanted.

To be able to keep her face as more attractive were invited famed embalmer Alfredo Salafia for help. The Salafia was an Italian chemist, who had discovered a secret formula for maintaining the body after death. Started tarichefontas small animals and then humans! Perfecting his technique, he managed to make a small Rosalia, a child, who see it, mourning it like 'left', and just yesterday we are dead for 90 years. Maybe eventually wear down even for grief, a date ... Salafia himself died 13 years after the girl and did not leave anywhere or anyone his secret chemical mixture that eliminated the wear perpetuating sadness. The secret seemed to be lost forever, until the time that a team of Italian scientists discovered a manuscript of his legacy. In this, the embalmer explaining in detail the recipe of liquid periechyse arteries of Rosalia, there was nothing unusual in the formulation, since resembled that of other souse! And the question remained unanswered: How mummify beauty?
Those visiting Palermo, flocking to the monastery of the Capuchin order to frighten and to philosophise with the ephemeral life in creepy catacombs. But all leave tears and overwhelmed by the encounter with the little one. Sleeping Beauty of Palermo, known as the most perfect little body embalmed all time, but one look, closed peismomeno look like plywood to death, even to dream in the eternal sleep ........

The little girl in tiny glass coffin, reminiscent of dolls that attract children's attention. Her own gaze, sealed forever, looks angry in front of merciless death and moves ... Moves incredibly .....