The Hawaiian gazette., 1872-10-30
The Cologne Carhedrai.

Our windows at the hotel looked out on The
finest from; OF the cathedral. If the Devil really
built it. he is to be credited with one good thing
and it is now likely to be finished in spite Of him
La-ge as il is il is on the exterior not so impress
sive as that at Amiens; but within it has mag.
ni6cent horn Of vast design anS the most har-
mouious proportions, and the grand effect is not
broken by any subdivisions but tina; Of the choir.
Behind the altar and in front OF the chapel where
lie the remains Of the Wise Men Of the East who
came to worship the Child, or, as they are called,
the Three Kings OF Cologne, we walked over q
stone in the pavement under which is the heart
OF MARY de Medicis the remainder Of her body
Is in ST. Denis near Paris. The beadle in red
clothes. who stalks about the cathedral ike
converted famingo, offered to open for Us the
chapel; but We declined a sight ofths very bones
OF the Wise Men. It was difficult enough to be
Iieve they were there, without seeing them. One
ought not to subject his faith TO too great strain
at first in Europe. The bones Of the Three Kings
by the way. made the fortune OF the cathedral.
They were the greatest religious card Of the Md
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, food Of wealth 10 this old Domkirche. The
old feudal lords would swear by the Almighty
Father, or the Son. or Holy Ghost, or BY every
thing sacred on earth, and break their oaths as
they would break wisp OF straw: but if you
could get one Of them TO swear by the Three
Kings Of Cologne, be was fast for that oath he
dare not disregard
The prosperity of the cathedral on these vau-
able bones set all the other churches in the neigh
borhOod on the same track and one can study
right here in this city the growth of relic worship
Bot the most successful achievement was the col
lection Of the bones of s.; Ursula and the eleven
thousand virgins, and their preservation on the
very spot where they suffered martyrdom. There
is probably not so large collection of the bones
Of virgins elsewhere in the world and Am sorry
to read that Professor Owen has thought proper
10 see and say that many Of them are the bones
OF lower orders Of animals. They are built into
the walls Of the church, arranged aboutihe choir,
inferred IN stone collins laid under the pavements:
and their skulls grin at you everywhere. In the
chapel the bones are tasefuly built into the wall
and overhead. ike rustic woodwork and the .
skulls stand in rows, some with silver masks, .
Ike the jars on the shelves OF an apothe-
cary shop. Il is cheerful place. On the little
altar Is the very skull OF the saint herself, and
that Of Conan, her lover who made the holy pill
grimage to Rome with her and her virgins, and
also was slain By the Huns at Cologne. There
Is the picture Of the eleven thousand disembark
ING from one boat on the Rhine. which is as won
derfuI as the troOpiug Of hundreds of spirits out
Of a oOnjurers bottle. The right arm of ST. Ur-
sula is preserved here; the left is at Bruges. l
an gradually getting the hang of this excellent
but somewhat scattered woman, and bringing her
together in my mind Her body. believe. lies
behind the altar in the same church. She must
have been lovely character if Hans Memlings
portrait Of her is a faithful one. vas glad to
zee here one Of the jars from the marriage supper
n Cana. We can identify it by piece which
s broken out; and the piece is in Notre Dame
o Paris. 1t has been in this church for five hun
Ired years The sacrston. very intelligent per-
on, with shaver crown and his hair cut straight
cross bis forhead, who showed US the church,
ave Us much useful information about bones.
eeih aud the remains Of the garments that the !
irci0s wore and / could not tell from his face
oE much he expected Us to believe. asked the :
tile iussy old guide Of al English party who had
,ined Us how much he believed Of the story. He
Is Protestant, and replied, still anxious to L
eep up the credit Of the city "Tousands is too Il
ANY; some hundreds, may be; tOusands too c
iany.-C. D. Warner. 9