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...force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little below the crypt. The only way to keep St. Paul's from replacing London Bridge in the famed nursery rhyme was to remove the dome and deepen the foundation. In short, some said one thing, some another. The Dean was rather confused than relieved...
After the body had lain in state for several days, a requiem was held and the triple coffin of elm, cypress and lead was lowered into the crypt that had long been prepared...
...present, Woodrow Wilson's body lies beneath a six-inch slab of concrete and a three-inch slab of marble in one of eight catacombs in the crypt beneath Bethlehem Chapel of the unfinished Washington Cathedral...
...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
...crypt of St. Peter's, many Bishops, including Mgr. Canale Oberti of Santa Fe, last week said mass for Pope Pius X, "the Good", who died ten years ago. Before the tomb, thousands of candles were lighted, thousands of flowers scattered. The late Pope's aged sisters, who still live near the Vatican, attended...