Rosalia Lombardo
Rosalia Lombardo | |
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Lombardo's embalmed body in 1982 | |
| Born | 13 December 1918 |
| Died | 6 December 1920 (1 year, 359 days) |
| Known for | Being in an especially well preserved state in her tomb, in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo |
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. Sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty", hers was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.