The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-25
FOUNDING OF ST. PETERS.
a IAttle orator. Built Over the Apostle's
Tomb.

~Vjxerunt," said Cicero, gfimly, when
Satiline and his feflow-conspirators lay
there dead; and perhaps the sword that
was to fall upon his own neck was even
then forged. The prison is still intact
The blood of Catiline, of VercingetoriN,
md of Sejanus is on the rocky floor.
Men say that st. Peter was imprisoned
here. But because he was not of high
degree Nero's executioners led him out
and across the Forum and over the Sub
tician bridge up to the heights OF Jan.
,culus. He was then very old ana
weak, SO that he could not carry his
| cross. as condemned men were made to
do. When they had climbed more than
halfway up the height, seeing that he
could not walk much farther, they
crucified him. He said that he was not
worthy to suffer as the Lord had
suffered, and begged them to plant his
cross with the head downward in the
deep yellow sand. The executioners did
SO. The Christians who had followed
were not many, and they stood apart,
weeping.
When he was dead, after much tor.
ment, and the sentinel soldier had gone
away, they took the holy body, and
carried it along the hillside, and buried
it at night close against the long wal
of Nero's circus, on the north side, near
the place where they buried the martyrs
killed daily by Nero's wild beasts and in
other cruel ways. They marked tho
spot. and went there often to pray.
! After that. within two years, Nero feA
and persisted miserably, scarcely able
to take his own life in order to escape
being beaten to death in the Forum. In
| little more than year there We're four
emperors in Rome. Galba. Ohio and
Vitellius followed one another quickly;
then came Vespasian. and then Titus.
with his wars in Palestine, and then
Domitian. At last. nearly 30 years
| after the apostle had died on the Janicu.
lus, there was a bishop called Anacletus.
who had been ordained priest by St
Peter himself.
The times being quieter then, this An.
acletus built little oratory, very
small chapel. in which three or four
persons could kneel and pray over the
grave. An that was the beginning Of
ST. Peters church. But Anacletus died
q martyr too, and the bishops after him
all persisted in the same way up to Euty.
chianus. whose name means something
Ike "the fortunate one" in barbarous
Greek-Latin, and who was indeed
fortunate. for he died a natural death.
But in the meantime certain Greeks
had tried to steal the holy body, SO tina.
the. Roman Christians carried it away
for 10 months to the catacombs of ST.
Sebastian, after which they brought il
back again and laid it in its place. And
again after that, when the new circus
was built by Elagabalus, they took it
once more to the same catacombs,
where it remained in safety for long
time.
Now came Constantine, in love with
religion and inclined to think Chris
tianity best, and made famous edict
in Milan. And it is said that he laid tho
deep foundations Of the old church of
st. Peters, which afterward stood more
than LOO years. He built it over the
little oratory of Anacletus. whose chapel
stood where the saints body had lain.
under the nearest left-hand pillar OF
the canopy that covers the high altar as
YOU go up from the door. Constan-
tines church was found on the south
side, within the lines of Nero's circus.
outside of it on the north side, and
parallel with it's length. Most churches
are built with the aspe to the east. but
Constantine's, like the present basilicaa
looked west, because from time i'm.
memorable the bishop of Rome, when
consecrating, stood on the farther side
of the altar from the people, facing
them over it,. And the church was con-
secrated by Pope Sylvester T.. in the
year 326-Marion Crawford, in Century
MExICC'S EXECUTIVE MANSION.
A Republican Ruler Who Dwells in
Kingly Palace.
When the meal has finally closed, tho
ladies retire, TO the salon de fumar tc
enjoy tiny cigarette or two, if sc
given, while the gentlemen linger owe,
their cigarros. After dinner the Wis.
itors win be escorted, if theyrequest it
through the high walls of the Castle,
and the host and hostess will soon
prove the most interesting of guides.
as the way leads through salon after
salon and great suites of apartments.
Chapultepec is equipped in truly
palatiai manner, but with a quiet ele.
gance, and with none of the uncul.
tured ostentation too often in evidence
in the surroundings of foreign aristoc. .
racy.
The walls of the rooms of state in
Chapultepec are hung in woven silk
bearing the coat of arms of the repub.
lie of Mexico, heavily hand invoked
with the same material, and all the
other tapestries are of the finest
quality, the same costly rule applying
20 the general furnishings Of both resi-.
dences of the president. At Chapulte.
pee many Of the pieces Of furniture in
use have come down from more than
three centuries ago, while each sue.
ceeding administration during that
time has added some touch or other to
the palace home of the Mexican ruler
There are priceless paintings from the
royal galleries of Spain and Europe;
furniture with its pearl mosaics and
gold and copper inlaying, costing fab.
ulous sums; rugs from the orient,
brought over in the early days of rega! .
splendor, and many tons of the finest
Of Italian and native sculpture In stat.
uary and massive urns OF finely
grained marble and alabaster. Yetth<
general arrangement of it all is mos,
skillful, and the furnishings exceed.
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