Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — In the Padrido [ARTICLE]

In the Padrido

London Tid-Bits. Few people are aware of the strange fact that the iato Kidg Alfonse, of Spain, who died six years ago, is still unburied and awaiting his final interment in the tomb which has been prepared for Bla corpse, clothed only in a thin linen garment. The dead King lies in a slab of jock near a running stream of water near a cavern in the side of the mountain, on the sjbpe of which the grand old Escurial is V , «y* , i ■■ : / There he will remain until his body has attained all tho peculiar properties of a mummy, and then only will the ghastly object be place in its niche in that marvelous jasper vaultj under the great dome of the Esourial Church. The name of this weird cavern is i.he “Pudrido.”