The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-16

in the place of greatest honor, inclosed
in an urn on bronze and silver, repose
the bones Of Cardinal Mendoza, he who
suggested the plans that brought to
successful issue the siege of Grenada.
His lineage was one of the noblest in
CASTLE, and he reconciled within himself
the apparently inconsistent qualities of
priest warrior and statesmen. As his
tomb sets forth, the title of Tertius Rex,
Third King of Spain" from the degree
in which he shared the sovereignty with
Ferdinand and Isabella.
Cardinal Ximenes, too, the great pre-
late who was once the obscure Francis
above which hangs his scarlet silken
hat, covered with the accumulated dust
of three hundred and fifty years.
Every Spanish cathedral is a kind of
Westminster Abbey. and this of Toledo
is particularly rich in famous tombs.
Each of it's twenty chapels-ffty-six
feet long by fifty wide, one hundred and
sixteen feet high and in form like the
cathedral itself-is as large as many
churches; each contains its illustriouS
dead, amid paintings by the old masters
and War-Worn trophies Of SPANS proud
est triumphs. On the altar of one of
them lies the sword of Alfonso VI, con-
queror of Toledo over another stands
the crucifiX which was raised upon the
walls of the Alhambra. Side by side, in
the beautiful Capilla Mayor, hang the
banners taken in the victory of Las Ma
vas de Tolosa, which forever broke the
Moslem power, and the standard borne
by the royal galley at the battle of Lee
panto.
One of the most interesting chapels is
that of San Ildefonso, founded by AL
fonso Wits fighting primate away back
in earliest times, and much improved
by Gil de Albornoz, who was buried
within it in the year 1850. The saint
was born in Toledo and was a famous
advocate Of the doctrine of the immac-
ulate conception twelve centuries before
it was proclaimed by Plus TX. Tradi-
ton tells US that the virgin, in gratitude
to Saint IldefonSo once came down
from heaven and sat in bis seat in the
cathedral; and again she appeared in
the same place and put the hassock on
his shoulders. OF course this holy gar
ment is preserved in the chapel. ST. Il
whore he died in the year Gil and was
buried at the feet of Santa Leocadia.
During the Moorish invasion his body
was carried off, together with that of
Leocadia, and was lost for more than
six hundred years; until, in the year
1870, a Toedon shepherd, caught in the
cathedral at Zamora and suspected of
being a thief, replied: II was led here
by San Ildefonso who appeared in per-
son, walked before me to this spot and
then vanished" Thereupon Alfonso
VIII had the place dug; a body was
found and a chapel built over it, where
in astonishing miracles were performed. |
AS Zaragoza claimed the primacy of |
AragOn because the virgin appeared |
there to Santiago, so Toledo owes its ell
ovation in CASTLE to her visits to San |
Ildefonso. Accordingly, Cardinal Royas I
erected a shrine over the spot where |
she stood-a lofty, pyramidical pile of /
open Gothic work, richly carved with /
bas reliefs representing details of the
story, The very slab of red jasper on
which the virgin stood is here preserved, /
rallied off and inscribed ''Adorabimus in /
oco ubi steterunt pedes ejus," and the
NAVE WolU the SlOuG away Z
with their kisses The virgins ward .
robe, which one may inspect by paying
4 small sum, is a sight indeed Her
of silver and gold cloth, is en-
oroidered with seventy-eight thousand
real pearls, besides multitudes of dia-
monds, emeralds and rubies. There are
countless robes of various colors of rich
patterns of embroidery, given by Kings
md queens popes, archbishops and
wealthy ladies. Her crown, without it's
ewels, cost twenty-five thousand dol
ars, and her bracelets, brooches and
)ther jewelry are worth the ransom of
several kings In Spain the worship of
he virgin is something like that paid to
IN earthly queen and assumes an oddly
practical character. She has always
oval crown, a household formed of the
greatest ladies' of the land, who provide
or her wardrobe, her fetes and process
ions, and she has also considerable
anded estates left to her in legacies,
rom which a sacred revenue is derived.
The great queen of this cathedral is
arved of black wood and is seated on
liver throne. under a silver-gilt canopy,
by alabaster pillars. In the
ear I'll II was saved from the infide19
" an Englishman, who hid it in a
'ault where it remained until after the
conquest Of Toledo. Her famous clock
vas made in 1915 and in it the following
were employed: Two hun
red and seventy-fve ounces of pearls
f various sizes, three hundred ounces
f gold thread, one hundred and sixty
unces of small pieces of enanelled gold
nd twenty ounces of emeralds and 9TH
r precious stones. 1t is marvel of
he jewelers. art, the meterial entirely
oncealed by precious stones, white,
lack and pink pearls and gems of eve
y color and purest water wrought into
caves, roses, feurs-d e-lis, stars, crosses
nd crescents.
Queerest of all the chapels is that
uilt by Alvero de Luna Constable of {
astlle, grand master of the Order of
antiago. and prime minister of John r
{, whose mind and counsels he COM ,
letely ruled for nearly forty years. He
we'd in royal state, and when he rode +
1T was followed by thirty knights, and
2 held three thousand lances in his ,
ay His interference brought about +
larriage between his king and lisa bella
Portugal, who became his bitterest ,
lemy, and whose ascendency over her r
lsband was finally the cause of his =
lin. He was executed, on a trumped-
D charge of high tTpa son in the Dlaza | ,