@onceuponatimein_history: (If look tired and ill, its because I am. Cold has aged 10 years) This Sleeping Beauty is wax covered Saint Victoria / Vittoria of Rome... Look closer and youll see her beneath the wax fascade #History #sleepingbeauty #weirdhistory #catholicsaints #saints

🌈Nina🐆 :

a little girl died because she said no to a man and they preserved her body AND the wound that took her life 😩😭 Poor girl

Cheryl🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇹 :

Another example as to why we choose the bear - they’ve been killing us over rejection for centuries 😔

Crystal Junebug :

Men have been killing women over a rejection for centuries.

Angel_Maria. :

what a tragic story she was just a girl

vikingbarbecue :

my catholic parents: "why are you so obsessed with death and disturbing artwork?" me vaguely gesturing at catholic history books

Purpledame :

Just say no they say 🙄

🔥GGoldberry🔥 :

Good grief, always the mens

Mimi - La petite sereine :

She was just a baby. 😭

blackthorn.whitethorn :

But I pull a tarot card and suddenly I’m weird

Anna Truong :

purple_polenta :

Growing up Catholic in Italy you see stuff like this every week at church 🤣

Annabelle Bronstein :

No still means no.

My-Nostalgia-Is-Horror :

If I don’t get preserved like this I’m haunting everyone

Mik :

14-15 🥺

Dani :

This is so sad and disturbing 😭

QuietlyQuestionEverything :

It’s the eyes that get me.

gwendolyn 🎲🪱 :

i saw her recently! she is right across from The Ecstasy of St. Teresa sculpture, it was such an amazing experience

Nixon :

This is metal as hell 🤘

Evan✩♉︎ :

i hope she knows that shes very pretty and did not deserve this fate, i hope she gets to listen to zara larsson whereever she is.

Sam 🩶 :

The church she’s in in stunning! There’s an amazing Bernini statue in there as well.

HowToTrashPanda :

This always freaked me out! Her story is so sad to me!

⃟ :

Rest easy Victoria 💗

Stephy W :

The incorruptible saints are my Roman Empire

Darlana💙🇺🇸🆘💁‍♀️ :

History says she died in 250 AD with her sister. There was another St Victoria who was martyred in 304

Fiamaye :

I really don’t understand the whole saint thing. I’ve been to the Vatican museum but looking at all the portrayals of saints it felt like they just picked random religious people who were killed for any reason even mildly related to religion 😅 and then when you look for further backstory a lot of the time, because there is simply so many of them, there really isn’t much there aside from their death and what they are the supposed saint of.