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The cathedrals and churches of the Rhine (1906)

Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), b. 1871, McManus, Blanche · London : Brimley Johnson & Ince · leaf 328

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y, toward the end of the third century,in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian. One enters by a rectangular porch, whereare disposed some fragments of Roman re-mains. The rotunda, or decagon, so reminis-cent of Aix-la-Chapelle, dates from a periodcontemporary therewith, so far as its lowerwalls are… … Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine walls. In the latter are walled up innumer-able skulls of the companions of St. Gereon,and in each of the chapels is a great sarcoph-agus, also containing the bones of the martyrs.Altogether the thought which arises is nota pleasant one, no matter how worthy…

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