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The second Italian version of the skull of John Chrysostom, is located in a Roman Catholic shrine in Pisa.

John Chrysostom (347–407.AD) was Archbishop of Constantinople, and considered an important Early Church Father.

The claimed skull of Chrysostom is kept for adoration inside the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Florence in Italy.

Bone house in Hallstatt in Austria

The Bone House is located in a chapel in the basement the Church of Saint Michael. That church has been standing there since at least the 12th century CE, built against the steep cliffs of the Hallberg, surrounded by the graveyard and overlooking the town and the lake.

Roman Catholic monks adore a 750 year old skeleton inside the Relics Chapel of Padua’s Basilica in Italy.

2 Peter 2:1

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up.

Syncan: Love is an amazing thing. The more two hearts are united in love, the closer the distance between them, the less they need speech to communicate. Even when they speak, more is said in silence. It reminds me of Abraham and God in Gen 18. God said he is going to see what's happening in sodom and gomorrah, but Abraham heard more than just that, so he started a negotiation against the destruction which was not even mentioned...so my dear brother, I blame it on love. Those two hearts, Jesus and mary, are united in love. More was said in silence than in speech.

Hummm.... Interesting, very interesting

bongila: How people can stand to sit,pray, and worship in a place with all these scary stuffs is beyond me.
Just seeing it online is scary in itself,how much more seeing it live! Nightmarish!

Just believe you are standing on a sacred ground and it may not look that scary (atleast that is the way some catholics act around those relics)

They kiss them
They touch them
They place them next to their body
They place them on their altar etc.

This is what they have made of the gospel of Jesus. Paganism at its peak.

Still Chapel of Bones (hanged on a chain is a decaying adult body)

italo: Would you find the same thing wrong in venerating your parents' corpses?

Do you have problems with your remains hanging on a chain outside a chapel like you have in the Chapel of Bones?

bongila: Jesus Christ! Yuck! Disgusting! Weird, much.
Unbelievable.

Those are facts. If you find a Catholic with human skull, don't be afraid, it may just be a relic he uses in his prayers.

italo: Would you find the same thing wrong in venerating your parents' corpses?

Though I take exceptions to your mentioning my parents.

Mathew 8:22
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

The dead is for burial not to be prayed with or displayed like Catholic practice.

Capela dos Ossos in Portugal

The chapel holds 5.000 skeletons. Some of these skulls have been scribbled with graffiti. Two desiccated corpses, one of which is a child, dangle from a chain.

1 John 5:14

[size=13pt]This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.[/size]

John 15:16

[size=13pt]You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit that will last--and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.[/size]

John 14 vs 12-14

[size=13pt]…12"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13"Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14"If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.[/size]

italo: What exactly do you find wrong in keeping and venerating relics?

The same i find wrong with idol and demon worshiping.

Capela dos Ossos in Portugal.

This Holy Roman Catholic site is located in the city of Évora 130 kilometer south of Lisbon. In plain English “Capela dos Ossos” should be translated Chapel of Bones. The Chapel is located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis.

The last picture shows that of a rotten child and adult hanged on a chain outside the Chapel.

Source: Wikipedia

Saint Ivo of Kermartin (17 October 1253 – 19 May 1303), also known Yvo or Ives, as Erwann (in Breton) and as Yves Hélory (also Helori or Heloury in French), was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages.

He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children. His feast day is May 19. Poetically, he is referred to as “Advocate of the Poor.”

Ivo was canonized in June 1347 by Clement VI at the urging of Philip I, Duke of Burgundy

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God am a jealous God . . ." (Exodus 20:4, 5)

There are several display of Popes in St. Peter Basillica in the Vatican statehood.

Source: Wikipedia

There are over 100 tombs within St. Peter’s Basilica (extant to various extents), many located in the Vatican grotto, beneath the Basilica. These include 91 popes, St. Ignatius of Antioch, Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, and the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Exiled Catholic British royalty James Francis Edward Stuart and his two sons, Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart, are buried here, having been granted asylum by Pope Clement XI. Also buried here are Maria Clementina Sobieska, wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated her throne in order to convert to Catholicism, and Countess Matilda of Tuscany, supporter of the Papacy during the Investiture Controversy. The most recent interment was Pope John Paul II, on April 8, 2005. Beneath, near the crypt, is the recently discovered vaulted fourth-century “Tomb of the Julii”.

Corpses of dead Popes are kept in the crypt in the Vatican. The body of Pope Celestino V is kept in the open in Central Italy.

“According to the Roman Martyrology, August 14, the Church remembers and venerates “… the approximately eight hundred martyrs of Otranto, in Puglia, pressured to renounce the faith after the crushing assault of the Ottoman soldiers in 1480 A.D.

1 Timothy 4:1-3

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth

One of the claimed miracles that lead to the canonization of this “saint”

On a hunting trip, Henry IV of Castile fell from his horse and injured his arm. In intense pain and with his doctors unable to relieve his agony, he went to Alcalá and prayed to Didacus for a cure. The saint’s body was removed from his casket and placed beside the king. Henry then kissed the body and placed the saint’s hand on his injured arm. The king felt the pain disappear and his arm immediately regained its former strength

Source (wikipedia)

More on Saint Diego

The remain of Saint Diego of Alcala is kept in a 17th century silver urn inside the Cathedral in Alcalá de Henares in Madrid. His claimed “untouched” body is shown to the public every year, on his feast of November 13th.

Acclaimed Relics of Other Saints

Venerable Bede - Durham Cathedral, Durham, England
St. Cuthbert (d. 687) - Durham Cathedral, Durham, England
St. Anthony of Egypt (d. 356) - near Vienne
St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) - Assisi, Italy
St. Teresa of Avila (d. 1582) - Alba de Tormes, Spain
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 270) - Calabria

Acclaimed Relics of Church Fathers

St. Ignatius of Antioch (d. c.107) - St. Peter's Baslica, Vatican City
St. Augustine's Elbow - Annaba (formerly Hippo Regius), Algeria
St. Augustine - Pavia, Italy
St. Athanasius (d. 373) - Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
St. Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444) - Alexandria, Egypt
St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)- Saint-Servin, Toulouse, France

Some of the acclaimed Catholic Relics and their location

Jesus' baby blanket - Aachen, Germany
Jesus' foreskin (Holy Prepuce) - Coulombs Abbey, France
Jesus' loin cloth worn on the cross - Aachen, Germany
Pieces of the true cross - many locations, but primarily Santo Toribio de Liébana, Spain
Mary's cloak - Aachen, Germany
St. Peter's remains - St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
St. Mark's remains - St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy