Yet another after-life anomaly is the crypt of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on Via Vittorio Veneto.
She and other members filed down to the meeting room, underneath an area known as the Crypt.
Confucius may not inhabit the crypt, but he still haunts the nation's heart.
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His dedication to the celluloid past, however, is beyond question among the plentiful homages, the immortal Laurence Olivier has a cameo from the crypt.
After final prayers at the crypt, the band let out a swinging version of "Didn't He Ramble, " announcing the beauty of a life well lived.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the crypt of the Basilica di San Carlo al Corso in Rome has been turned into a night club to lure young people back to the Catholic church.
Saint Servatius, responsible for spreading Catholicism to the Low Countries and a diplomat in the fourth century, is buried in the crypt and his relics (i.e. bits of his bone fragment) spookily feature in the basilica's treasury.
After a drop in followers of the faith, one industrious priest decided that the best way to get the youth back to church was to offer a party in the sacred crypt that holds the remains of church bishops and cardinals from eras gone by.
He then commended his soul to God before the procession to the cathedral crypt where Cardinal Winning was laid to rest.
This way, the walls not only provide a dramatic backdrop for the gold and silver items on show but also evoke the shadows of a crypt or the inner sanctum of some great cathedral.
Set against the furious voices roaring off that stage, Bill Clinton was a figure from the Democrats' crypt.
There had been a divisional-playoff weekend with a string of classics the Ravens in one of them, crawling out of a crypt to stop the Broncos in Denver and these moments served to remind that despite all its brutal, unsettled everything, the game could be luminous.
Topped with a spectacular lead dome, its crypt is the resting place of Lord Nelson and The Duke of Wellington, among others.
Cross St Michan's Church immediately off your list: behind iron doors, a narrow stone staircase descends to its crypt where the ghoulish remains of up to 800-year-old bodies have been preserved by the dry air.
The museum displays funeral programs for Princess Diana and Michael Jackson, an original crypt marker for Humphrey Bogart, documents from the memorial service for the Titanic victims and the guest list for the private funeral of Marilyn Monroe.
Other artefacts, including pottery and an entrance to a hitherto unknown crypt were also found in the church, which dates back to 1100.
And as a matter of fact, on this crypt in Mexico City, the face on the nameplate is the mask of El Santo and not his real face.
Even if you can't find a way to see your favorite celebrity's crypt, Los Angeles residents said that just stepping foot in the park is an experience in itself.
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Before he crawled back into his crypt last year Cheney lambasted President Obama for being too soft on terrorism in rolling back the Bush-Cheney-era security regulations.
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