Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.

The body then lies in state for several days before being interred in the crypt of a leading church or cathedral ; all who have died in the 20th and 21st centuries have been interred in St. Peter's Basilica.

The four knights, wielding drawn swords, caught up with him in a spot near a door to the monastic cloister, the stairs into the crypt, and the stairs leading up into the quire of the cathedral, where the monks were chanting vespers.

To prevent this Becket's remains were placed beneath the floor of the eastern crypt of the cathedral.

The grave of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor at the crypt of the Speyer Cathedral | cathedral of Speyer, Germany.

* Duomo ( Cathedral of Saint Vigilius ), a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral of the twelfth-thirteenth century, built on top of a late-Roman basilica ( viewable in an underground crypt ).

The cathedral contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still holds a portion of the relics of the apostle.

The crypt of the Alexander Nevsky cathedral holds a collection of Eastern Orthodox icons from the 9th to the 19th century.

The existing crypt of the cathedral dates from the 10th century and the time of St. Oswald, Bishop of Worcester.

Bishop Étienne II built a new Roman cathedral on the site of the current cathedral, consecrated in 946 but ( apart from the towers, only replaced by the current ones in the 19th century, and some parts of the crypt, still visible ) destroyed to build current Gothic cathedral.

He was buried in the crypt of his cathedral.

The cathedral was constructed over the crypt of a former Visigothic chapel, dedicated to Saint James, which was the proprietary church of the Viscounts of Barcelona, one of whom, Mir Geribert, sold the site to Bishop Guislebert in 1058.

The Romano-Gothic cathedral, where lie the remains of Jörg Jenatsch, was begun by Bishop Tello ( 758-73 ), and has a highly interesting crypt ; it contains some remarkable paintings by Dürer and Holbein.

The architects designed the crypt chapels in Norman, Romanesque, and Transitional styles predating the Gothic, as though the cathedral had been built as a successor to earlier churches, a common occurrence in European cathedrals.

Image: Dresden-Hofkirche-Gruft. jpg | Katholische Hofkirche cathedral in Dresden, Wettin crypt with Requiem altar.

The crypt, on the Greek cross plan, has 108 Romanesque small columns and is home to the relics of Saint Justine, to which the first cathedral ( crumbled down in 1117 after an earthquake ) was dedicated.

He was originally buried in old St. Patrick's Cathedral and was exhumed and reinterred in the crypt under the altar of the new cathedral.

The crypt of the Alexander Nevski cathedral features an exhibition of a large collection of medieval icons.

Christ Church also contains the largest cathedral crypt ( 63. 4m long ) in Britain or Ireland, constructed in 1172-1173.

The situation for the colonists became so dire that the Portuguese ruler Count De Alwore went with his remaining supporters to the cathedral where the crypt of Saint Francis Xavier was kept, where they prayed for deliverance.

Its patrons were the chapter of cathedral ( led by a Dean ), the Archbishop Arnost of Pardubice, and, above all, Charles IV, King of Bohemia and a soon-to-be Holy Roman Emperor, who intended the new cathedral to be a coronation church, family crypt, treasury for the most precious relics of the kingdom, and the last resting place cum pilgrimage site of patron saint Wenceslaus.

If mason's marks were the sign of the comacini, then evidence of their work has been found in several parts of Europe, as far as the capitals of the crypt in the cathedral of Lund.

He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles.

Ealdred was a monk in the cathedral chapter at Winchester Cathedral before becoming abbot of Tavistock Abbey about 1027, an office he held until about 1043.

How the diocese of Worcester was administered when Ealdred was abroad is unclear, although it appears that Wulfstan, the prior of the cathedral chapter, performed the religious duties in the diocese.

Even after the Norman Conquest, Ealdred still controlled some events in Worcester, and it was Ealdred, not Wulfstan, who opposed Urse d ' Abetot's attempt to extend the castle of Worcester into the cathedral after the Norman Conquest.

Ealdred was back at York by 1069 ; he died there on 11 September 1069, and was buried in his episcopal cathedral.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of St. André was built.

The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower.

In the 15th century the Norman church of St Petroc was largely rebuilt and stands as one of the largest churches in Cornwall ( the largest after the cathedral at Truro ).

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral.

Historically, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

In addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways.