Capuchin Church, llc
Baroque crypt beneath a Capuchin church holding the tombs of Habsburg emperors and empresses since the sixteen hundreds.
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This guide to the Capuchin Church crypt in Vienna opens with the ritual still used to enter it: three knocks on a plain door, a monk asking who seeks entry, and a formula that has to be answered a very particular way before the door opens. You'll hear how that exchange actually played out in July 2011, when Otto von Habsburg's body arrived at the crypt, and what it took his herald three tries to say. The guide also walks you past the roughly one hundred forty five Habsburgs entombed below, from plain iron boxes to Empress Maria Theresa's rococo sarcophagus, before it tells you what was quietly missing from each body.
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