DISCOVERIES IN RHEIMS'S RUINED CATHEDRAL
The ruin of Rhoim's Cathedral has brought to light the buried remains of ite predecessors (writes a correspondent to the Manchester Guardian). Under the pavement of the choir, which was broken into fragments by G«rman shells, workmen found the old foundations which had once supported the noble cathedral of Saint Hincmar, burnt clown in the ninth century. Reiving lower still they came upon traces of the first church to jStand on this haljowed ground, that of Saint Bomi, missionary bishop of -the cariy Church, who baptised Clovis, the first Christian King of] France, early in thefifth century. "Under the broken high altar they found 250 ancient pieces of silver—what is oven nioro precious—a longsealed well, with water still at the bottom. ' From this well turns a conduit in worn lead piping from the direction of which it.is now possible to placo with certainty the long-vanished baptismal font where Clovis was received into the Church. Those discoveries- are being followed with the greatest interest by antiquaries^
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 100, 28 April 1921, Page 3
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170DISCOVERIES IN RHEIMS'S RUINED CATHEDRAL Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 100, 28 April 1921, Page 3
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