Word: sarcophagi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of independent Austria, exhumed the bodies of two predecessors, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel and Engelbert Dollfuss, and placed them in elaborate bronze sarcophagi at the Church of Christ the King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt...
...central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow had him interred in the Episcopal pile. George Dewey, Henry Vaughan (Cathedral architect), Bishop Satterlee and his successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press. The delicate matter of arranging interments is in the hands of the Cathedral Executive Committee, who are empowered to accept no more than one person a year. For his interest in arranging such matters, Bishop Freeman...