he day our plane landed in Roma, we rushed to the Capuchin Crypt beneath the Capuchin Church of the Immaculate Conception (1645), located on Via Veneto, near Barbarini Square. We arrived one half hour after the crypt had closed, but following on the heels of a forceful Italian woman and her party, managed to gain admittance. We were so enamoured of the place that we returned on our last day in Roma to see it again. Entrance is by donation, the door manned by a Capuchin monk. The bones in this crypt were nailed to the wall and arranged in patterns: cross, floral, arch, triangle and circle, as well as forming objects. A large clock is composed of vertebrae, foot bones and finger bones. The single hour hand represents the idea that time has no beginning or end.