QUEEN BERENGARIA
AN ECHO OF THE CRUSADES. Preia Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, March 1. In order to provide space for a memorial for the priests of tho diocese who fell in the Great War, the tomb of Queen Bercngaxia, who was Consort of Richard Cccur do Lion, has been moved in the cathedral at Lc Mans, where it had remained undisturbed for nearly 700 years. The reinterment ceremonies were imposing. The organist played tho British National Anthem, and the tomb was heaped with violets gathered at Queen Borengaria’s Epau Estate, and bound with tricolor ribbons, with an inscription commemorating both great crusades, tho Queen, and France’s vfetims in the holy crusade of 1914-18.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17599, 2 March 1921, Page 7
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