Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-05

~HE traveller in South America |
who studies the various fea-
lures of the history of that con-
tinent, the life of colonial times
and that which followed it as the ma
tional life Of the separate coun-
tries, soon discovers that there
Is a well-defined line of demarca-
ton between that time when the
people borrowed their artistic in
spiration from the traditional sources
in Europe and that later time
when local influences began to be felt
and when the continent developed it's
own artistic sense that demanded some
original expression. This statement
applies to the industries that were
first brought over from Europe across
the Atlantic; it is true of the social
life and of education in all the re-
pub1ics of the southern continent mani
Testing characteristics which are De-
culiarly their own; it is likewise true
of municipal and governmental affairs,
and finally in regard to the construc-
ton of their buildings, especially of
the architecture ecclesiastical edifices
of the diocesan capitals, says the
French edition of the Bulletin of the
Pan-American union. AS an exam
pie of the colonial epoch in church
architecture the cathedral of Lima Of
fers a good Illustration. That coun-
try has one archbishopric, that of
Lima, eight dependent bishoprics, viz,
Arequipa, Huanuco, Chachapoyas,
Ayacucho, Puno Trujillo, Cuzco, and
HuaraZ.
In connection with the name of
Lima two characters will always be in
timately associated with its historic
memories; Pizarro, the intrepid con-
Queror, whose remains rest in the ca
thedral whose corner stone he laid,
who founded the capital and gave it
the name of La Ciudad de los Reyes
(the city of the kings) and second
young girl who renounced a life of
social ease and pleasure and became
renowned for her piety, a renown
which resulted in her canonization by
Pope Clement * in 1911 under the
pame of Saint Rosa of Lima, the pa
tron saint of the capital city as well as
Of all Catholic South America.
1t was Pizarro who laid the plans
for the imperial city, including the
erection of great metropolitan
church. 1t was not finished and dedi.
Gated until 1910, and it was at the re-
quest of Charles V of Spain that Pope
| Paul III raised the see of Lima to ar
! archbishopric. AS a consequence II
was determined to rebuild the edifice
and the work was started under auspi
| cious circumstances. Owing to vari
| GUS interruptions, changes of plans
and other Gelays the building was MOI
finished until 1925. Not long after the
conservation of the cathedral, by or
der of the Spanish viceroy, the morta
remains of the great conquistador were
transferred to the edifice and now res
| in a splendid sarcophagus in one o.
the chapels.
In 1746 an earthquake made mas
of ruins of the city of Lima, the ca
| thedral being among the buildings sc
! riously damaged In 1853 it was finall.
completely restored. The building il
of gray stone, and is the largest O
the old Spanish ecclesiastical edifice
of South America. The facade is 49,
feet wide, the crowning feature of tn
building being its two massive squar
towers. The many columns and archi
tecturaI decorations are for the mos
part Corinthian in style; it has fiv