Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — OLDEST CHRISTIAN BELL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLDEST CHRISTIAN BELL.

Above is shown the oldest known. Christian bell in the world. It was cast at Santiago. Spain, in 1247, and bears a Latin inscription which translated reads: “James. Jesus Christ, Mary. Quintana and Salvador made* me in the year of our Lordl24X-’’-The ben Is owned by an innkeeper of Riverside, Cal... who has one of the* greatest collectionsofbelis tn the world. It w’as discovered in a London foundry, and after a great deal ofi trouble w«3 brought to this'country.