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Show Mexico Land of Cathedrals. The distinctive characteristic of Mexico is a land of cathedrals, which like the scattered beads from the rosary ros-ary of some Franciscan monk, are strewn from the Bravo del Norte to where the winds from the tropics waft the palms. Previous to disestablishment disestablish-ment of church and state, the treasures and wealth of these old monasteries were fabulous; and though Juarez, the full-blooded Indian who is looked upon as the emancipator of Mexico, seized church property and confiscated much, yet the buildings still stand as monuments to a colonization that was ardently Catholic, and are wonderful won-derful type6 of the Spanish renaissance. renais-sance. With huge domes, half-orange shape (so designated in Mexican architecture, archi-tecture, "Media Naranja"), these stupendous stu-pendous buildings are decorated with wonderful specimens of wood carving, carv-ing, where solid mahogany beams form the joist in many cases. Mexico lavished the interior of these edifices with onyx columns, marble altars, silver sil-ver chancel rails and gold tabernacles. taber-nacles. The woman worshipers in their mantillas man-tillas and rebozas are In keeping with the old world atmosphere and taper lights. Cassie Moncure Lyne. |
