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Nearby was the Monastery of San Francisco, famous for its catacombs that
are still full of the bones of the thousands buried beneath the church.
For a donation, people could get themselves buried here, supposedly giving
them quick passage to Heaven. It was a bit disturbing, first that
they would do that in the old days, and second that they were now letting
tourists pay to come in a gawk at the remains. A few of the people I
saw it with were quite offended.
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