Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Treasures of Tours. [ARTICLE]

Treasures of Tours.

One of the most interesting medieval' treasures of Tours Is the Cathedral ofy Saint Gratin, begun in 1170, but not completed for nearly four centuries. Two other famous structures fare the towers of St. Martin and of Charlemagne. The first commemorates the deeds of the great apostle of Gaul, patron saint of France, who aided Clovis against Alaric and who in return received maby rare gifts for his Tours church the grateful Frankish leader. The Charlemagne tower is S» called because it marks the burial place of that monarch’s third wife* Luitgard.