Word: crypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devout Catholic, daring soldier, veteran of African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
Deep down in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, rattled the bones of the Protestant Episcopal family skeleton last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...
Although the Little Church Around the Corner could be hidden behind the leaping spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, or tucked into the crypt of Bishop Manning's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it is the most famed church in Manhattan...
...crept up on her, seized her with his bony hands, hurt her till she should tell her lover's name and strangled her when she dared defy. But the lover, too, must die and Flora's lips are poisoned for Avito who follows her to the castle crypt, for Manfredo who meets him and, knowing all, still wants...
Where then was Joffre, the jovial, the well beloved? Good "Papa" Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...