Sleeping Beaty since 1920

Rosalia Lombardo (December 13, 1918 in Palermo, Italy – December 6, 1920), was an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Rosalia's father, Official Mario Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her.Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.