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Nationality
  

Name
  
Rosalia Lombardo

On the left, is the mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo. On the right, is the mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920) inside a coffin exhibited in the Capuchin Cemetery in Palermo.

Born
  
December 13, 1918 (1 year, 359 days) (
1918-12-13
)

Other names
  
Sleeping Beauty of the Capuchin Catacombs

Known for
  
Being so well-preserved that it looks like she is sleeping in her tomb that is located in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo

Parents
  
Mario Lombardo, Maria Cara Lombardo

Similar People
  
Alfredo Salafia, Otzi, Xin Zhui, Elmer McCurdy

Died
  
6 December 1920 (1 year, 359 days) Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Rosalia Lombardo (December 13, 1918 in Palermo, Italy – December 6, 1920) was an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Rosalia's father, official Mario Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Contents

The death and embalming of rosalia lombardo


Rosalia Lombardo, Child Mummy [2010]


Embalming

The mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920).

Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb's tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a wooden pedestal. A 2009 National Geographic photograph of Rosalia Lombardo shows the mummy is beginning to show signs of decomposition, most notably discoloration. To address these issues the mummy was moved to a drier spot in the catacombs, and her original coffin was placed in a hermetically sealed glass enclosure with nitrogen gas to prevent decay. The mummy is one of the best preserved bodies in the catacombs.


On the left, is the mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920). On the upper right, is an X-ray of Rosalia Lombardo. In the middle right, Capuchin Church, Palermo, Sicily where the mummified body of Rosalia Lombardo was placed. On the bottom right, is the mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo inside a coffin.


The mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920).

The mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920).

The mummy of the little girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918-1920).



Dario Piombino Mascali poses in front of the mummified body of Rosalia Lombardo, who died at the age of two from pneumonia and is preserved inside the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo.

References

Rosalia Lombardo Wikipedia


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