Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-12
Hadrian Castle, st. Paul's Of London,
and the Westminster Abby
of Italy.
The Burial of Anne BOleyn and
Katharine Howard in the
Tower of London.


were most thoughtful of their burial
places, as the pyramids and columns by
many an ancient river" testify. The
Street Of the Tombs, in Pompeii, itself an
open and untenanted crave, shows that
people lived, loved and died, and their
graves were marked as by those whose
Ideas OF immortality are more orthodox.
When one thinks OF the greatest man of
his time and perhaps of all time, Moses,
Is there not sadness In the thought tnat
mo man knoweth OF his sepuleher unto
this day?'
Away off in Rome in the little protes-
tant cemetery under the shade of a great
pyramldal monument erected II B. c. in
honor of Caius Cestius, Roman tribune,
Is the grave of John Keats, the young Eng
lish poet whose fire of life burned so bril-
lIantly and was so soon extinguished. The
plain headstone bears the melancholy in
serlption, Here lies one whose name was
writ IN water" The ashes of the poet
Shelley are also buried mere. He was
drowned in the Mediterranean and his body
recovered and cremated. His heart
escaped the FIRE and was sent to England.
On the Tlber rises what looks like a
huge medieval castle and has been used
for defense in numerous sieges The En-.
peror Hadrian wanted posterity to realize
he had lived and erected this stately pile,
which was the tomb of all the emperors
from Hadrian to Caracala 1t was used
once as prison. and here poor, unfor.
tunate, beautiful Beatrice Cenci was in
generated in a gloomy dungeon
ST. Peters is the beautiful tomb of
many Of the holy fathers. There is one
which must be a continual memento
mort to tho living pope, as his Lody rests
there until his own tomb is completed.
Pope Plus TX lay in it from 1878 TO 1881,
when his body was taken to San Lorenzo.
outside of the walls.
Raphael the immortal painter, buried
in the Pantheon. Ii was once a heather
temple, and Is now in more perfect state
OF preservation than any other ancient
building In Rome. 1t is great circular
building, lighted only by single aperture
IN the dome. Raphael was only a young
man when he died in the height of his
fame. His body was borne to the church
followed by sorroming Rome, and the pic
ture, the last work OF his hand, carried be-
fore. Victor Emmanuel one of the heroes
OF modern Italy, Is also buried in the
Pantheon. Two soldiers, old followers of
his, are on quad always. In spite of the
Ill feeling, which has not died out between
the Vatican and Quirinal, solemn requiem
mass is held here on each anniversary of
his death.
In the Westminster abbey of Italy,
Santa Croe, Florence, is buried Michael
Angelo, with his face toward the cathedral
he loved so well. Calico is buried in the
same church. In the protestant cemetery,
Florence, is the grave of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning The design of the monument
is not at all pleasing, too heavy and
square. 1t bears the modest inscription,
= +. b. b., with the date of her birth and
death
The tomb of Abelard and HeIoise is in
Pere Ia Chaise, Paris The tragic love
story still lives, and wreaths and flowers
are constantly placed before it by the ro-
mantle and by disappointed lovers.
The church OF St. Denis, outside of
Paris, was the burial place of the French
kings from Dagobert to the time of the
French revolution, when the tombs we're
destroyed, the crypt broken through and
the royal bones thrown into the common
bitches. Louis XVIII had the remains of
Louis XVI and Marie Autcinette removed
from the churchyard of The Madeline here.
Every one knows the story Of their death,
how their blood ran with the blood of
thousands IN the stree of Paris to satisfy
the rage O. the people.
The Terror of Europe" Napoleon, as
I. b. Aldrich says, is "held down by so
tons of porphyry' in the egIise des Inua
lldcs. The tomb is an open crypt. Une
looks down upOn 1t and thrills at the sight
of the battle flags and the uames of his
victorious battles recorded on the pave
ment. Above the entrance are the words
from his will, al desire that my ashes re-
pose on the banks of the Seine in the
midst Of the people have loved so
well.
The Pantheon was once a church, then
seculaIizad, reconsecrated, and finally re.
seculari1sd for the obsequies of Victor
Hugo. He is buried in the crypt. Mira
beau, Marat, Rousseau and Voltaire were
all buried here, but their bodies have been
removed.
In st. Peter S chapel, in the Tower of
London, lie Anne Boleyn and Katharine
Howard, two wives of Bluff King Hal"
They were beheaded, aud also sweet Lady
Jane Grey, who is buried in this chapel
Royalty, with few exceptions, is buried in
Westminster abby, as are most of the poets
of England, from Chaucer down The in
scriptlon on the poe Gays tablet is rather
grim:
Life is jest, all things show il;
] thought so once and now know IL.
Lord Nelson and the Duke Of Yelling
ton are buried in St. Pauls, London.
The architect Wren is buried there also.
and the great cathedral must stand for
ever as his own monument.
In tie Parliament square, Edinburgh,
marked by a small stone, is the spot where
the mortal remains Of the great reformer
Knox we're committed, with the words
"Ehere lies he who never learned the
face If man.
In Melrose Abbey, under the high al
ter. hes the heart of King Robert the
Bruce .
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