Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — FIND FAMED WARRIOR’S BODY [ARTICLE]

FIND FAMED WARRIOR’S BODY

Workmen Discover Tomb of Andrea Morosini in Venetian Church— Mummy Also Pound. Venice.—lt always pays to scrape the walls of the churches and palaces of Italy, for almost invariably under the uninteresting outer wash are found frescoes of more or less value. This is Just what happened here in the Church of Sts. John and Paul, where some frescoed figures of the evangelists have come to light near the high altar. What is, perhaps, more Interesting to the ordinary traveler is the discovery in the same church at the other side of the high altar of a Gothic sarcophagus of the fourteenth century in which a mummified body was lying on the back with the head turned to the right One of the feet was detached from the body. From the description it was learned that these were the remains of Andrea Morosini. a famous warrior and a member of the family which gave four doges to Venice. The remains have been left

intact and the tomb will Jge>exhlblted to the public as soon as the restoration of the church is completed.