War memorial displaying skulls and bones of martyrs

You might have visited a war memorial at some point of your life and must have felt for the brave men who died fighting for their soil. Some might have been simple, some might have been opulent preserving the memories of the intact using altar pictures but what if a war memorial is housed with skulls and bones of the very martyrs who raised their heads against atrocities? Shocked??

Even I felt the same when I came to know about it. A Cathedral in Otranto city in South Italy has its wall adorned with skulls of eight hundred people. This wall memorial displays bones and skulls of the martyrs of Otranto.

The skulls date back to 1480 when Otranto city was invaded by Turks and eight hundred people who refused to convert to Islam were marched to the hill of Minerva and beheaded. In order to honor the sacrifice of these people to date the cathedral preserves their skulls and bones behind the glass of the altar walls.

Sounds strange but its true!!