Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-06-11

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- HEN the Spanish discoverers
N~WYYt and explorers of America drove
WW/ the prows of their frai vessels
AA/ through unknown seas II
WV search of the India of theiI
w dreams they left Europe stir
ring with that new life which
Lat S1.=zM was to blossom in the renais
'EIN QllSSSl sance. The dark ages were
HHr5EI just closing and the wealth o
lMe@l knowledge and art so Ions
boarded In monasteries and
castles barred from the flow of human life
was about TO burst forth like a flood to refer
tize European civilization. Crumbling archi
lecture was being restored. churches and pal
aces were being founded great engineering
works undertaken. In many respects, indeed
the wonderful activities and achievements o
that time may be compared with those of ou
own. in spite of the differences in methods
materials and purpose. When Columbus lef
Palos in 1892 St. Peters at Rome was in tn,
hands of builders filled with the new IDEAS bu
waiting for the genius of Bramante and Niche
Angelo; the cathedral Of his native Genoa wa
being greatly enlarged and embellished
that of Seville was nearing completion;
tndL OF lOleQO was just nnlSneQ. fOr
800 years the Gothic beauty OF Burgos
had been growing to its perfection in
1921, the year in which Cortez took the
City OF Mexico; and in the same year
the beautiful cathedral at Granada,
which enshrines the tombs of the Cath
ole kings and commentaries the de-
iverance OF Spain from the Moors was
begun.
This passion for building crossed II
the ocean In the breasts of the Spanish III
discoverers and first colonists who al Hi
though they celebrated their earliest re- I'LL
ligtous services In tents by the sea iii
shore or beneath the branches of un- III
familiar foliage we're impeled to erect III
as soon possible temples big and III|
splendid enough to express the master IlII
motives of their age-religion and art
AS Hispaniola. or the island of San
Domingo. was the first land perma
nently settled. so Isabella, the capital q
now the city OF Santo Domingo found.
cd In 1896. contains what Is probably the OLD
est cathedral church in the new world. begu
in 1914. Within 1t rested the body OF Coluu
bus until this part of the island was ceded
the French In 1885, when the Spaniards ca
ried what they supposed to be his remain
with them to Cuba. Since that time other r,
mains have been found here which the peopl
the true relics Of the discoverer, and az sue
they are revered and jealously guarded With
handsome modern monument.
At Port au Prince. Haiti, there is a CATH
dral. long under construction and vet unil
ished. OF mixed French Gothic and Roman
esque style. The French cathedral at 8
Pierre. Martinique, was destroyed by the erul
tion OF Mount Pelee. and the bishops seat wa
removed to Fort de France. Owing to the fat
that the government OF Cuba rested for nearl
40 years at Santiago. from 151s-15s2, Il hal
pens that this town boasts a cathedral whic
antedates that Of Havana. but 1t is not remarl
able as compared with many OF the Spanis
colonial edifices. The cathedral at Havana
and indeed that at Santo Domingo has muc
TO inspire enthusiasm from the artistic stan
point. but Havana has been interesting as II
temporary sepulcher of what we're called Il
bones Of the great admiral. His sarcophagl
and the memorable inscription were set int
the wall of the chancel at the left of the he
altar until after the war OF 1885, when his d
.scendant. the Duke OF Veraguas, removed Il
muchdsputed bones to the family mausoleu
in Seville.
Cortez landed and burned his ships on Il
beach near Veracruz in 1919, determined upc
the conquest of Mexico In the name of Spa
and of the Catholic church. He marked h
subjugation OF every town and province
founding substantial works of engineering al
architecture. wonderful, indeed. when one CO
siders his slight acquaintance with the mat
rials. the labor and the climate that confront'
him and the magnitude and beauty OF the 1
suits On entering the City of Mexico Cort,
destroyed the teocali. or Aztec temple. an
erected on its site small chapel for the |
dians, traces of which still remain. In II WI
installed the seat Of the first bishop OF Mexic
who came out In 1928 as a suffragan OF Il
bishop of Seville, but the cornerstone of Il
present cathedral was not laid until 1873 TIL
is the most stupendous OF all the Spanish G
lonial cathedrals. the largest in all the Anne
cas- and said to be outranked only by ST. +
ter's in Rome and st. Paul's In London. II hi
cost at the time of its completion about $500
QUO, sum as colossal In those days az 4