The Spanish Revolution: entrance, from the cloister, to Burgos Cathedral, where the governor was murdered, 1869. 'The ferocious acts of some fanatics in assassinating the Civil Governor of Burgos, Don Isidore Gutierrez de Saturday, the 23rd January, when he had gone there, by order of the Minister of Public Instruction, to make an inventory of in the keeping of the Chapter, has excited a strong feeling of indignation among the Spanish people. It seems that the found the public doors of the cathedral locked, and had then entered through the Archbis
The Spanish Revolution: entrance, from the cloister, to Burgos Cathedral, where the governor was murdered, 1869. 'The ferocious acts of some fanatics in assassinating the Civil Governor of Burgos, Don Isidore Gutierrez de Saturday, the 23rd January, when he had gone there, by order of the Minister of Public Instruction, to make an inventory of in the keeping of the Chapter, has excited a strong feeling of indignation among the Spanish people. It seems that the found the public doors of the cathedral locked, and had then entered through the Archbishop's palace, which has a private passage into the cathedral. On reading to the Archbishop the Ministerial decree, under which the Governor acted, that Prelate exclaimed that the Ministers and the Governor were furious mob from the outside broke into the cloisters. Don Gutierrez went with them at the cloister door, but they crowded upon him and stabbed him to death, mangling his lifeless body in a horrible manner and dragging it by a rope into the street; the eyes were torn out, and the nose and ears were cut cathedral church is one of the finest buildings in [It] was begun in the thirteenth century'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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