A few fine columns of that of Jupiter Olympius still remain; and the temple of Minerva (now converted into the cathedral of the city, and dedicated to the Virgin) is almost entire.
The cathedral stands on the ruins of a temple, and is built chiefly of ancient materials.
Just above this is the imposing pile called the Cathedral Rocks, and behind these, connected with them, two slender and beautiful granite columns called the Cathedral Spires.
None of the cathedral windows are richer than those which circle the chancel.
The effort has been made to reproduce in the cathedral a pure type of the Gothic architecture of the thirteenth century, without its ruder and less refined characteristics.
The Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, N.
Upon a bright, sunny day the cathedral is made exquisitely beautiful by the mellowed radiance of these windows.
At precisely 11 o'clock the chimes in the cathedral tower rang out a clear and resonant peal, and the people thronged into the building through its tower and transept entrances.
But my brother was in trouble, and, you see, the Cathedral doors had to be opened at once.
Only listen: if you don't succeed in building a cathedral every bit as fine as Ely, I shall cut you off from my visiting-list.
He has also served this cathedral more than nine years in the prebends of canon and precentor, the latter of which he holds at present.
The cathedral needs a permanent subsidy for its current provision of wine, etc.
One of the things which this cathedral has considered, and considers, intolerable, is that it always has to be governed by friars.
In the first part of the year 1629, the most holy sacrament was found missing from the altar of the cathedral of Manila.
The latter presented before the cabildo of this cathedral a decree from your Majesty, despatched in the ordinary form, so that the government should be given to him while waiting for the bulls from his Holiness.
As the humble Campbellite disciple is borne to his long home, the music of the requiem fills cathedral arches and the domes of ancient synagogues.
St. Paul's Cathedral was crowded to overflowing at the announcement that the services would relate to the death of President Garfield.
He told the Burghers of Antwerp that, "the light and soaring spire of theircathedral deserved to be put under a glass case.
In the Cathedral at Carpi, is a monument by one Ferrari, which so perfectly imitates marble that it cannot be distinguished from it, except by fracture.
You should hear the Squire's account of the crush in getting into the cathedral on the Sundays that he was in residence: four Sundays in the year; or five, as the case might be; all told.
For the beautiful cathedral service had charms for Dolly.
For reading like unto his, or preaching like unto his, had rarely been heard in that cathedral or in any other.
Of course Helen hoped to see something besides thecathedral her curate.
Leafchild, a great light among Church dignitaries, and canon residentiary of a cathedral in the North, had set his face against the wish.
The chancel contains some finely carved figures of the Evangelists, brought from Bruges Cathedral by a former rector.
Of those that are still used for religious purposes, the most conspicuous are Wells Cathedral and Bath Abbey.
This secular character was stamped upon the cathedral from the first.
On the way he again passed through Wells, where some of his men tore the lead from the Cathedral roof to make bullets, and inflicted other damage on the building.
The path which traverses the Cathedral green enters the Market place by the third of the Close gate-ways--Penniless Porch, where alms are said to have been periodically distributed.
Ina also founded Wells, but as a collegiate church of secular canons, not as the cathedral of a diocese.
It is really only the basement of the chapter house, and was used as the cathedral Treasury.
The visitor should now return to the cathedral in order to inspect the Vicars' Close, one of the unique features of Wells.
Wells Cathedral contains some splendid Transitional work, of which there are also specimens at Clutton.
Apart from its cathedral life, Wells has had few interests.
The cathedral library forms an upper storey to the E.
Then a brilliant staff, composed of general officers, at the head of whom was the commandant of Valparaiso, came out of the cathedral and stood on the last step of the peristyle.
It was striking half-past ten by the cathedral dock.
Amid the thundering of the guns from the citadel, the great bell of the Cathedral clanged the death knell to Arnold's hopes.
This year died Aldred, Archbishop of York, and he lies buried in his cathedral church.
The cathedral was then visited, and the bonds and securities of the Jews, deposited there for safe keeping, were destroyed.
In the following year his majesty attended the espousals, celebrated in the cathedral church.
Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power.
Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour!
If thecathedral church is poor in worship, feeble in life, unspiritual in tone, the Church of England loses caste among the Churches of the world.
Ypres Cathedral and the Cloth Hall, as I have seen with my own eyes, are in ruins.
How can the other branches of the great Catholic Church learn what is the teaching and the practice of the Anglican branch except from the Bishop who represents her there, and from the cathedral over which he presides?
I see him riding very splendid animals when he comes over for the cathedral duties," said the minor canon.
But those lips now were august and reserved for nobler foreheads than that of an old cathedral hack.
She had always been very fond of the chapter, and her original dislike to Bishop Proudie had been chiefly founded on his interference with the cathedral clergy,--on his interference, or on that of his wife or chaplain.
The doing so would give the Omnium interest a hold even in the cathedral close.
It was evident that there was to be a further toilet before she sailed up the middle of the cathedral choir.
We were, however, the other day given to understand that one of these luxurious benefices, belonging to the cathedral of Barchester, had been bestowed on the Rev.
I have always liked a cathedral town," said Lucy; "and I am particularly fond of the close.
No church but the cathedralcould hold such a multitude.
The scene is laid in a peasant's hut on the edge of a forest near a cathedral town.
The smoke-grimed back wall of the hut has vanished and in its place appears a vision of the cathedral chancel.
At the moment when the vision of the cathedral is to appear, the screens marked E E are parted and folded back disclosing the chancel.
This window commands a view of the cathedraland of the road leading down into the town.
Peel Castle was already tumbling to its fall, and the cathedral church was a woful wreck.
A third derives it from the Greek Soter, Saviour, to whose name the cathedral of Iona was dedicated.
The whole scene at Durham was tremendously impressive (though York Cathedral made the stronger impression on me).
The view was bounded by a high wall, and above the wall, the east end of Coldchester Cathedral stood up a dark mass against the pale-blue sky.
Canon Percival left San Remo the next day, saying that Coldchester Cathedral could not get on without him.
Over the great cathedral tower, over the blue hills, away, away.
The cathedral and other churches were stormed and sacked during the following days, while all official documents and charters dealing with the feudal relations of the town were given to the flames during the ensuing month.
A well-known illustration of this is the incident of the vase taken from the Cathedral of Rheims, and of Chlodowig's efforts to rescue it from his independent comrade-in-arms.
And who is there who has not heard that before the death of the elder Lorenzo de' Medici, the highest pinnacle of the cathedral was rent by a thunderbolt, to the great injury of the building?
Cathedral of Notre Dame; also the robe of the Empress Josephine, sold at the same time.
The magnificent cathedral spire in Antwerp is familiar to almost everybody who looks into the windows of the print shops; and we climbed far up into it, to its great colony of bells, that make the very tower reel with their chimes.
The crypts beneath this cathedral are in an excellent state of preservation, and at one time were used for purposes of worship.
This cathedral is five hundred and twenty-five feet long, one hundred and ninety-five feet in width, and is one of the finest of those wonderful monuments of religious art that rose during the middle ages.
SAINT GILES It was in the beautiful land of Greece that Saint Giles was born, very far away from the grey northern city, whose cathedral bears his name.
Later on, Giuseppe Gadgi, Canon of the Cathedral at Como, taught him for a few months.
At the age of eight his parents confided him to the boys' choir of the Cathedralat La Rochelle.
Nothing done in any cathedral could be more solemn.
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