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...heroes of the Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...
...Masses every Sunday. Its staff of 60 priests hears about half a million confessions a year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time, by using the side altars in both church and crypt. The two Masses at 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. are popular with homeward-bound nightclubbers, printers and reporters...
...cool crypt under the high altar...
Jake is Home. Mulling over Denton's strange disappearance, detectives had the house searched again. Finally they found a neatly plastered crypt under the basement stairs. In it was Jake Denton's body, shot in the back...
...crypt was long since rifled by the Greeks...