Romanian nuns celebrate Easter among the skulls of their dead sisters as Orthodox Christians pack churches around the world

By  ROSIE TAYLOR  - 5/5/13 Around 300million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday  Nuns at the Pasarea monastery in Romania marked the holy event in room of skulls Thousands attended Holy Fire ceremony and Easter service at Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem As thousands of Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday today with services around the world, worshippers in Romania visited an underground room of skulls to mark Jesus Christ’s resurrection. The ossuary at Pasarea monastery near Bucharest contains mainly the remains of nuns who lived there. A Romanian Orthodox priest led a service as nuns held candles and sang, while visitors looked on