The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 232
xcavated in the rock. A door in the south apse alsoopens into this graveyard, so that the bodies might becarried into it from the chapel after the service had beenperformed. Several similar graves are cut in the rockin front of the porch. These excavations are all very MONT-MAJOUR. 201 small, some… … MORTUARY CHAPEL, MONT-MAJOUR. enable it to compete with the very successful cemeteryof the Alyscamps at Aries, the monks had not only putup the fabricated inscription above referred to, but hadalso caused these trenches to be cut in the rock torepresent the graves of martyrs. 202 MEDIEVAL TERIOD.…
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