The tomb of St. Francis is in an open crypt below the high altar; this crypt is called by the Assisans the Third Church; the neighbouring peasants frequently attend the early mass celebrated here.
The coffin was reburied in a crypt made to receive it in front of the high altar, reached by a double flight of steps.
I can show you the entrance to that, which is in the crypt of the chapel, hidden behind the casks of wine.
Colville and Barebone had to help Jean to move the great casks stored in the crypt of the old chapel by which the entrance to the passage was masked.
The crypt was filled to the brim with bright stones that the morning sun struck into lambent flame.
And at first glance the crypt seemed brimming with liquid fire, catching the early light with a million blazing facets.
And under them, stained with their blood, the pirates found a crypt carved in the solid stone.
The Archimandrite sang mass in person before the tombs of Savatie and Zosima, in the crypt of the cathedral church, and also before the miracle-working picture of the Virgin brought by Savatie to his desert.
Getting leave to remove the bones of Savatie from Soroka to Solovetsk, he took up his body from the earth, and finding it pure and fresh, he laid the incorruptible relics in the crypt of his infant church.
But Christina's heart was in Lorraine, and her children laid her body in the crypt of the Cordeliers' church, in the grave of the husband whom she had loved so faithfully and so long.
Pius X had asked that he might be buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, absolutely forbidding the embalming of his body.
In the crypt of St. Peter's the then last pope, who was a peasant, was laid close to the sepulchre of the First, who was a fisherman.
Beneath the central tower of this minster there is a small crypt or vaulted cell entered from the nave by a narrow passage.
At the north side of this crypt there is an opening thirteen inches by eighteen, called St. Wilfred's needle.
A very interesting stone hangs suspended from the gilded iron grating which protects the crypt or confessional of St. Laurence, immediately underneath the high altar of the great Basilica of San Lorenzo beyond the Gate.
Proceeding with the excavations, a door leading into a neighboring crypt was opened.
The crypt was filled with earth and débris, which appeared to have fallen into it through a luminare, now choked up with the growth and accumulated rubbish of centuries.
Just you hand over Granddad Lauderdale's crypt and those carte-blank permits and I'll save you from being your own lawyer defending a charge of before-and-after burglary.
Since that disastrous night, I've been trying to work out the verses of the crypt from memory before its present possessor would get the key to a translation.
The upper part of the building dates from 1450, but the crypt is much older, and it is conjectured to be a Saxon foundation.
To me it is a pleasing and interesting reminiscence, even if the story of Paul’s and Timothy’s tenancy of the crypt be a monkish figment.
Mirabeau’s remains were taken from this crypt for re-interment in Père Lachaise.
It was a strange optical illusion, so powerful one had to struggle to banish the idea that the porphyry was translucent and the glow reddening the sides of the crypt such gleams as one sees in the heart of an opal—“the pearl with a soul in it.
People of true sensibility prefer to weep here rather than in the crypt of St. Denis!
It was high noon, and the light flowed through the cupola crowning the dome directly into the great circular crypt in the centre of the floor, filling—overflowing it with glory.
Others may chant your praises in the church, but here in the crypt will I tumble for your delight.
In this fashion passed many days, for at every Hour he sought the crypt to do service, and pay homage before the Image.
In the restorations of this grand building * the crypt was cleared out, and is now admired as one of the richest specimens * of Early English architecture existing in Scotland.
CRYPT KEY: He chose a random crypt key that would be used to guarantee the privacy of his conversations.
The com- puter automatically set the communications parameters and matched the crypt key as chosen by the caller, undoubtedly Homosoto.
It was dawn before we had the crypt sealed; we were cut and bruised.
A boulder blocked the crypt and I asked Martha to have her friends help me drag it aside.
But I shall do my best to furnish the crypt another tenant, though I will not promise to put my Court in mourning for him.
In the lowest storey there is the ancient cloister, superseded by the work of Villedieu, and also a beautiful crypt with short thick pillars, and a delicately groined roof.
It stands a little away from the din of tempestuous Rouen, and beneath it is the oldest crypt in France, the crypt of St Mellon.
Nor is the crypt beneath--rightly called the Crypt of the Great Pillars--less interesting.
I went on: "My dear, I had come into the crypt full of courage and hope, though I knew what dreadful sight should sear my eyes once again.
That night the priest on duty, on going his round of the Cryptjust before dawn, found the tomb empty.
The crypt was a huge place, strangely lofty for a vault.
At last I saw near one end of the crypt a great chain hanging.
There is a secret way from the Crypt to a sea cavern, whose entrance is at high-tide under the water-line at the base of the cliff on which the church is built.
The dead girl had been buried in the Crypt of the church of St. Sava, and day after day and night after night, singly and in parties, the sorrowing mountaineers had come to pay devotion and reverence at her tomb.
She thought she had seen me in the crypt of a great church close beside a stone coffin; and, knowing that such was an ominous subject to dream about, came as soon as she dared to see if I was all right.
I seemed to have heard, both in the darkness of the crypt and through the dimness of the church, mysterious sounds as of whispers and suppressed breathing; but the memory of these did not count for much when once I was free.
I knew that all around me were memorials of the dead--that in the Crypt deep-wrought in the rock below my feet lay the dead themselves.
There was nothing to do now but to speak out the truth: "I was in the crypt of St. Sava.
With the light came a sense of power and fresh courage, and I groped my way back into the crypt again.
We have, however, ourselves seen the bodies preserved in a crypt of the cathedral church of Bremen.
This crypt is called the Bleikeller, or lead-cellar, for what precise reason we do not remember.
Nay, She went lower still, down to the cellars of Her palace, waiting in the crypt to give audience to the waverers, the timid souls who were abashed by the sunlit splendour of Her Court.
It was a weird and mysterious vapour, as strange as the crypt itself, which, with its furtive lights and breadths of shadow, was at once penitential and soothing.
It proclaims the plenitude of Her patience and charity by the length of the crypt and the breadth of the nave, which are greater than those of other churches.
Madame Bavoil was right; to understand the welcome the Virgin could bestow on Her visitors, the early Mass in the crypt must be attended; above all, the Communion should be received.
The crypt was closed in the afternoon, but he found his way in by a small door in the sacristy inside the cathedral, and descended into utter darkness.
Hence this crypt would reproduce the most consoling and the most heroic passages of the Sacred Book, for the Virgin is supreme in this underground sanctuary; it is Hers rather than the terrible Adonaï's, if one may dare say so.
Yes, I went into thecrypt while Mass was going forward, and saw you go up to the Holy Table.
Having reached the crypt in front of the altar, he round once more the doubtful but soothing odour of that vault, smoked by burning tapers, and went forward in the soft, warm atmosphere of frankincense and a cellar.
Durtal made the experiment; one day when the Abbé Gévresin enjoined on him to approach the Table, he followed the housekeeper's advice and went to the crypt at early dawn.
In thecrypt the distant hum of the bells, the sounds of life in the cathedral above, could still be heard; here, nothing!
The body or crypt of this venerable relic of antiquity was discovered a few years ago, and unhappily destroyed.
In digging the foundations for the Post Office in 1818, a range of Saxon or early Norman vaults were discovered, which had belonged to the college, the remains of a crypt of the time of Henry III.
There is a finely vaulted crypt under the altar and over the fourteenth century vestry is an interesting library where the books were once chained to the shelves.
The crypt beneath the chancel is of much interest.
A particularly fine cryptis in Simnel Street, with a window at its east end.
Of this structure the crypt and transepts remain practically untouched.
One of the most interesting discoveries is that of a twisted column in the floor of the crypt that is thought to be part of the martyr's shrine.
A Saxon crypt was discovered under the chancel when that portion was restored and a trap door gives access to this chamber from the floor.
I distinctly advised her to tell Seraphine that we were aware of your arrival, and that to my certain knowledge you were in the crypt each afternoon at the hour when the White Ladies pass to and from Vespers.
Were it not so, it would be my duty to clear the crypt before Vespers.
Since that infolding clasp in the cryptwhen he had flung the cloak about her, not once had he touched her, until the Church just now bade him, with authority, to take her right hand, with his.
From this position he could also command a view of the steps leading up into the crypt from the underground way, and of the ground to be traversed by the White Ladies as they passed from the steps to the staircase in the wall.
Deny it, right and left, my good Philip; and say, on my authority, that the Reverend Mother hath most certainly not caused the crypt way to be searched.
And somebody must still be aiding and abetting his plans, or he could not be, as he himself told me he would be, daily in the crypt alone, during the hour when we pass to and from the clerestory.
