Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-09-22
HORRID REGAL RITE.
The EMPRESS ELIZABETH TO LIE IN
THREE GRAVES.

Her Remains Not To Rest In the Ca
puchin Vault I'm Their Essirety.
The Infe~tin@~ and Heart 10 IA.
Preserved In Different Churches
The remains of the murdered Empress
Elizabeth reached Vienna the other day.
and there Is every reason TO believe that.
in spite Of the very little sympathy thar
existed between the people Of this gay
metropolis and herself during her life
time, the mourning OF the Niennese
Will be sincere and heartfelt.
The appropriately of the kaiserin at
| Vienna was due 10 her aversion 70 al
those state ceremonies and public func-
tious of which the Austrians are -
fond. The people seemed 10 think tnat
they had right 10 exact that she should
constitute herself a part and parcel OF
the imperial show, and they resented
her failure TO comply with their wishes.
She, ON the other hand, never either
forgot or forgave the coldness and lael,
Of cordiality which had marked her re
ception Iy the people a. well n by the
nobility of the kaiserstadt when first
she came to Austria as "a i.i-year-olG
bride
And, besides that, she detested being
| stared at, and it was impossible for her
10 show herself anywhere at Vienna.
| without being stared at not only in All
| ordinary fashion, but even through big
| fieldglasses and telescopes, horrible
ordeal for woman suffering from
nerves SO high strung as hers. In Hun
gary it was quite different There she
was never mobbed, the people possessing
| too keen a sense of their native dignity
| 10 run after her and stare at her in the
rude way of the Niennese. That Is why
| she loved Hungary 60.
Tie remains Of the empress will
within the next few days, therefore. be
| laid in the vaults of that old Capuchin
church at Vienna where all the mem
| bers Of the imperial house of Hapsburs
since the days of Emperor Matthias r"-
| pose. There are nearly /, 400 collins In
| these vaults, the most notable objects
being the enormous sareophagus which
| Empress Maria Theresa caused to be
/ made for her beloved husband, herself
and her children. According to an old
| custom members Of the imperial faml y
| must actually lie in wood, though the
| outer ccffin may be of metal. The cas-
| hots Of the emperors and enipresses ana
| of their children are covered with blaCk
| velvet and gold, while those of tine col
| lateral archdakes and archduchesses are
| covered with red velvet aud silver.
Emperor Joseph ii ordered that the
| outer collins from his reign onward
| should be plain copper shells, with a
| cross and an inscription on the I'D, ana
| his own is perfectly plain. The first re-
| turn to Recommendation was made IN
| 1912 for the coffin of ArchduchesS
| Sophia, the emperor mother. FORMER Y
| the males of the imperial fs.nily were
| laid Oh the gospel side crypt and the
| female on tise epistle side. But this rule
| was broken through because Empress
| Eleonora Magdelina wished TO be laid
| beside Ler husband. Since 1s44 the cot
| fins are grouped according to families
| Pope Pins VI visited these vaults III
| 1889 Napoleon l likewise visited then,
md was so much impressed by the
.loomy scene that he is said to have
xclaiined, 'Vanitas yanitatuni, omnia
,auita s-hors la force -
Ia accordance with the traditions and
equations governing the obsequies OF
BE nIemters of tie imperial house, the
CI !'Ht u TIC Gil IttSs w iioe NC ANftb
. rest IL the Capuchin vault in its en-
rety. THUS her intestines will be
laced in a gold and crystal receptacle
md conveyed with much religions
omp aHd courtly ceremony co the
'athelif,.l of st. stephen, ~ ere to be
reserved ;.lcng with the icntrails OF
lorc than a thousand 9th members
tie house of Hapsbug 4 the inches
i great shrine constructed for tbs
Grp~se Her l!.aJesty's heart-the only
:a}57bt.rg art that has even been
.isr.r cd Nv tue knife of an assiissln-wli
4 Ike same. WAY be placed in a beautl
a 1. sia slssr manner TO the Church OF
lie Ausus1ins, scarcely IL stones throw
away
The only mem Der Of the house OF
Iapsaurg who is on record as having
been laid whole III his tomb is Arch
duke Charles Louis. brother of the EN-
peror. who, fervently believing i.a the
resurrection CT the body, expressed his
objections to this potting and dismem
beTing process of his remains and
thought it uncanny that his heart and
his entrails should each have to go
hunting through the city for his body
OF the day of Judgment.