Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — No Official Italian Crown. [ARTICLE]

No Official Italian Crown.

There is no official crown worn by the royalty of Italy. The famous crown of Lombardy, which dares from the middle of the fourth century, is treasured in an Italian cathedral, and is the oldest and most sacred of all crowns of Europe. How ever, the present king, like his two predecessors, has n«*ver been crowned, and never will be. The crown is made of large gold plaques hinged together and richly Jeweled and enameled. It is held as very sacred, for Inside the gold is a narrow iron band, which tradition says te the nail that fastened the feet of Christ to the cross. The crown is held as being too sacred to use.