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Covered in a blanket she sleeps in a coffin made of glass. And she will be the way she is hopefully till the end of time. A sweet little two year old adorable girl died of pneumonia in the year 1920.
Yes, it's been nearly a century since she died, but if you see her now, it will seem like the little girl is just sleeping inside a tiny glass coffin with a talisman of Virgin Mary on her chest. The talisman of Virgin Mary is the only thing which will make you realize that she's not alive, otherwise you are going to think that she's going to open her eyes any moment and look at you. And if you could accidently manage to detect that she is dead, you would swear upon your life that the girl is dead no more than for 2-3 days. In the present days, people call her "The Slipping Beauty" "the most beautiful mummy in the world" or the "doll of death"; however, her real name was "Rosalia Lombardo".
After Rosalia died just at her age of two, and her father "General Lombardo", out of the sore grief for his beloved daughter, approached the Sicilian professor of chemistry and renowned embalmer named "Alfredo Salafia" to preserve the body of Rosalia. Salafia embalmed her body, put her into that glass-made little coffin. After that Salafia placed the most beautiful mummy inside the Palermo's "Capuchin Catacombs" in the southern Italy. The body of Rosalia Lombardo was one of the last dead bodies to take place inside the Capuchin Catacombs.
Beside the information given above, we have a very little knowledge about the life of Rosalia. And up until very recent days, we've known even less about the method of the preservation Salafia used for embalming the little girl's body.