DUST OF CENTURIES.
MEMORIAL OP TWO GREAT CRUSADES** Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, March 1. (Received March 1, at 10.30 p.m.) In order to provide space for a memorial for the priests of the diocese who fell in the great war, * the tbmb of Queen Berengaria, Consort of Richard Coeur de Lion, has been moved, in the cathedral at Le Mans, whefe it had remained undisturbed for nearly 700 years. . The reinterment ceremonies were Imposing. The organist played the British National Anthem, arid the tomb was heaped with violets gathered at Queen Berengaria’s Epau Estate, and bound with tricolour ribbons, with an inscription commemorating both great crusades. The Queen; and France’s victims in the holy crusade of 1914-18.- : —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18183, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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