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Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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form of an ample bowl, with its coverworked in silver in the form of a churchon the lines of a Greek cross. The device ismost unusual, but rather clumsily ornate. There are two curious statues in the portalof Notre Dame; one representing the Churchand the other the synagogue; the one with aclear, straightforward look in her eyes, theother blindfolded and with the crown fallingfrom her head. The symbol is frequentlymet with, but the method of indicating theopposition of the new religious law to thatof the old is, in these life-size statues atTreves, perhaps unique. The figures aresomewhat mutilated, each lacking the arms,but in other respects they stand as originallyconceived. The cathedral of St. Pierre et Ste. Heleneis situated in the most elevated portion of thecity, and, like the cathedral at Bonn, aboveCologne, presents that curious pyramidal ef-fect so often remarked in Rhenish churches. There is no very great beauty in the out-lines of this church, which is a curious jumble 214
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npREVES CATHEDRAL Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine of towers and turrets; but there are some verygood architectural details, quite worthy of amore splendid edifice. Ste. Helene, themother of Constantine, herself placed thefirst stone in the easterly portion of the pres-ent church, a fact which was only discoveredin the seventeenth century, when the founda-tions were being repaired. It is supposedoriginally to have been a part of the palaceof the Empress Helene, afterward convertedinto a house of God. One notes in the interior a remarkablybeautiful series of Corinthian columns withelaborately carved capitals of the eleventhcentury. In later years these have beenflanked by supporting pillars which detractexceedingly from the beauty of the earlierforms. In parts the edifice is frankly FrenchGothic, Byzantine, and what we know else-where as Norman, — a species of the Roman-esque. In 1717 the church suffered considerablyby fire, but it was repaired forthwith, andto-day gives the effe

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