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Show ART TREASURES ARE DESTROYED II il Churches and Monuments of Padua Suffer by Attack At-tack From the Air. PADI'A, Monday, Dec. 31. The third successive night air raid last night scattered scat-tered havoc among the famous churches and art monuments of Padua. The front of the sixteenth century cathedral was demolished. The Santo, or the hasiiica of St. Anthony, An-thony, where the body of St. Anthony of Padua 's buried, lost its bronze doors, and the sppulclicr of St. Anthony was missed narrowly by a bomb. Donatcllo's famous equestrian staluuo of General Gattamelata, which stands in the square before the Santo, had been removed to a place of safely, but the base, also the work of Donatello, was damaged severely. se-verely. The paintings and frescoes in the Santo, by Titian and other masters, were torn and scratched by the -concussions. The rose windows and the renaissance stained glass were shivered to fragments. The building opposite the Santo, where the guild of St. Anthonv issued leaflets to be sent throughout the world, was destroyed. de-stroyed. A pilgrimage to the sepulcher of St. Anthony was in progress when the bombs struck the Santo. The rathedral was struck above the gable facade, the entire gable and the upper part of the facade falling in the street. The raiders came at three different times, at S and 11 o'clock at nighr. and at 3 o'clock this morning. Twenty incendiary in-cendiary bombs were dropped. |