The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-16
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MEAS through unknown seas II
VW search of the India of theii
w dreams they left Europe stir
-~n-.a---I ring with that new life which
SB SsaezM was to blossom in the renas
Glftaa-406SISSI sance. The dark ages wer'
tnEJEaI just closing and the wealth o
kEl i knowledge and art so Ion,
boarded in monasteries ant
castles barred from the flow of human life
was about to burst forth like a food to refe
| tilize European civilization Crumblng arch
lecture was being restored churches and pa
aces were being founded, great engneerin
works undertaken. In many respects indeed
the wonderful activities and achievements
that time may be compared with those of OIL
own in spite of the differences in method
materials and purpose. When Columbus lie
Palos in 1892 st. Peters at Rome was In til
hands of builders filed with the new ideas, b,
waiting for the genius of Bramante and Mich
Angelo; the cathedral of his native Genoa wt
being greatly enlarged and embellshed;
that of Seville was nearing completion
that of Toledo was Just finished For
300 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
Ollie kings and commentaries the de-
liverance of Spain from the Moors. was
begun
This passion for building crossed
the ocean in the breasts of the Spanish
Il discoveries and first colonists, who al
e though they celebrated their earliest re-
n ligious services in tents by the sea
r shore or beneath the branches of I'M
S familiar foliage, were impelled to erect
). as soon as possible temples big and
a splendid enough to express the master II
:. motives of their age-religion and art Il
p AS Hispaniola, or the island of San
e Domingo. was the first land perma- r
8 nently settled so Isabella, the capital.
q now the city of Santo Domingo, found
d ed in 1896, contains what is probably the {
e. est cathedral church in the new world, beg
o. in 1914 Within it rested the body of Coli
bus until this part of the island was coded
the French in 1885, when the Spaniards
ried what they supposed to be his rema
t. with them to Cuba, Since that time other
a mains have been found here which the pee
a. of Santo Domingo, with justice, claim to
30 the true relics of the dscoverer, and as S
II. they are revered and jealousy guarded wit
4 n handsome modern monument.
OF At Port au Prince, Haiti, there is ca
es dral. long under construction ana yet III
ny ished. of mixed French Gothic ard Roh
is esoue style The French cathedral at
Pierre, Martinique, was destroyed by the e.
tion of Mount Pelee, and the bishops seat
removed to Fort de France. owing TO the
as mot the government of Cuba rested for ne
frpp
a. aors that this town boasts a cathedral WI
of antedates that of Havana, but II Is not rem
oe ahIe nc compared with many OF the spa
sIorioI edifces The cathedral at Hav
I'D indeed that at Santo Domingo, has N
=" 49, ,sr;re enthusiasm from the artistic st
noint Int Havana has been interesting as
,,orory eenulcher of what were called
rr 80 tho great admiral. His sarcoph
III d tbe memorable inscription were set
en 49, ,rou of the chancel at the left on the
Oh u ,,ntiI after the war of 1885, when MS
as 'I'' ,dant the Duke of Veraguas, removed
'ur .',at, disnuted bones to the family mauso'
~. in Seville
,,..,o, landed and burned his shlps on
,,oar Veracruz in 1919 Determined
u yea nononest of Mexico in the name u
,,s Vue Tho Catholic church. lie lhaINeo
IRA. "' 'tingation of every town ahu plo''nu,
zoe dine substantial works OF engineer 'l's
GeH indeed r ThS" the one
i1ars bis slight acquaintance WIN W., 90,
siu,, th, labor and the climate Ihat -,
,la''' and the magnitude ana Oeau9 r.
pr mn I'M On entering the CITY OF MeNlCo
yos ,o1troved the teocali' OF 49, 49,, for Nh
,,o. .ootod ON its site small cnapr' In n
SeDS of which s drs ff bisnop Of Nj
of installed the res, sea- IN 1928 as a suffragan
SsSop Of seville but ,Se ad un 1873
5ee the s1pe1 Ss largest OF t in 'T all the
art lonial o1' aoid to be outranked ohly W
,sns ers in Rome and st. r COMPLETION about
' ,Do at the time s colossal of ,s in those days