Wooden shrine with a skull of Countess Maria Eleonora Katharine von Fineke (Eleonora Kateřina von Fineke) on display in the Kuks Hospital in East Bohemia, Czech Republic. Countess Fineke was a wife of Bohemian nobleman Johann von Sporck (Jan Špork) and a mother of Count Franz Anton von Sporck (František Antonín Špork), the founder of the Kuks Hospital. She died when her elder son was a child. When Franz Anton von Sporck grew up he exhumed the skull of his mother from her grave in France and then kept it in his bedroom until the end of his life. Photo by Vova Pomortzeff

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