Show A very old rosebush As ions long ago 1190 as the tile year Is fe mentioned in ili history in that year we wc are told lewis tile pious chat lenin gnes son and successor made it the beat seat of tile bishopric intended by ili hit father to be cs nt lit the neighboring town of lize less than a century before charlemagne had brought the heathen saxons into subjection action and christianity was yet new in the tile land gunther tho the first bishop had bad been canon cation at the cathedral at I Kh thelin cims three years after his elevation to the new episcopal api cpi see ho he consecrated tho the firt first chapel landeg it in ili honor of tho virgin mary this chapel is supposed to have occupied the site under cathedral where the crypt of tho the new church 1 built A pretty rosebush that now clings to the ou outer wall of the cathedral ch choir r is faid by tradition to have grown there sine j the d days a Ys of lewis the pious himself in ill the tile twelfth century when tbt th choir am all crypt were being enlarged ged it protecting hollow wall was built around tho the ros rost bush in order that the vine might con COL dinue to grow about tho the building when the tile new wall hall been completed A bit of tho the old arching may bo seen behind the altar in tho the crypt this la is the tile present voucher for the great age of the ro ebush find and it must be admitted that many traci lions repose upon a less solid foundation architectural record |