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Peru

Chelsea and our guide, Carlos inspecting the catacombs of the Monastery of San Javier. We could still clearly see human remains and skeletons in these open tombs.

PERU | Thursday, 10 January 2008 | Views [377]

Chelsea and our guide, Carlos inspecting the catacombs of the Monastery of San Javier. We could still clearly see human remains and skeletons in these open tombs.

Remains of a Catholic Monastery in the village of San Javier built by the spanish in the 16th C. Hidden in the catacombs in the rear was ´secret tunnel´ which stretched 25km to a Catholic Convent in a near by town. The priests and nuns would meet clandestinely for sexual relationships. Unwanted pregancies were aborted in the middle of the tunnel.

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The Catholic Convent in the village of San Jose. When the local towns people discovered in 1941 what dirty deeds had been going on among the clergy for 100´s of years, they ransacked and burnt the churhes and then killed all of the clergy.

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