Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo
Lombardo's embalmed body in 1982
Born(1918-12-13)13 December 1918
Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Died(1920-12-06)6 December 1920 (1 year, 359 days)
Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Known forBeing in an especially well preserved state in her tomb, in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo

Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920)[1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu,[2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains.[3] Sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty",[citation needed] hers was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

  1. ^ Panzer, Stephanie; Gill-Frerking, Heather; Rosendahl, Wilfried; Zink, Albert R.; Piombino-Mascali, Dario (2013). "Multidetector CT investigation of the mummy of Rosalia Lombardo (1918–1920)". Annals of Anatomy. 195 (5): 401–408. doi:10.1016/j.aanat.2013.03.009. PMID 23725823.
  2. ^ Wiesner, Janika; Baumjohann, Kristina; Benecke, Mark; Scheidt, Jörg (May 2, 2013). "In the Catacombs of the Capuchin Monastery in Palermo" – via www.leica-microsystems.com.
  3. ^ National Geographic. February 2009. p. 124.