Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . chof Aix-la-Chapelle, but it has given way toa modern edifice bearing the same name,though it is in good taste and most pleasingin its interior arrangement. The Minoriten Kirche is a monkish foun-dation of the fourteenth or fifteenth nave and aisles all come under one canopyvault, and its aisleless choir is squared offabruptly with an enormous carved and paintedaltar-piece of no great excellence. It is pleasant to recall here that the councilof Aix-la-Chapelle made laws, which Charle-magne himself encouraged, referring to the 293 Cathedrals an
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . chof Aix-la-Chapelle, but it has given way toa modern edifice bearing the same name,though it is in good taste and most pleasingin its interior arrangement. The Minoriten Kirche is a monkish foun-dation of the fourteenth or fifteenth nave and aisles all come under one canopyvault, and its aisleless choir is squared offabruptly with an enormous carved and paintedaltar-piece of no great excellence. It is pleasant to recall here that the councilof Aix-la-Chapelle made laws, which Charle-magne himself encouraged, referring to the 293 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine treatment of pilgrims by the hospices whichwere so generally established throughoutCharlemagnes realm in Carlovingian times. To the ordinary fine for murder there wasadded sixty soldi more if the person killedwere a pilgrim to or from a hospice. Any whodenied food and shelter to a pilgrim was finedthree soldi. These were the regulations putinto effect through Charlemagnes dominionsat the suggestion of Pepin 294 XXVIII LIEGE The natural highway from Antwerp andBrussels to the Rhine lies through Liege andAix-la-Chapelle, or Aachen, as the Germanscall the latter. Wordsworth, in his wonderful travel poem,wrote of the Meuse, which flows by Liege onits way to the Royal Ardennes, in a way whichshould induce many sated travellers to followin his footsteps, and know something of thefascinating charm of this most fertile and per-haps the most picturesque of all the rivers ofEurope. What lovelier home could gentle fancy choose ?In this the stream, whose cities, heights and plains,Wars favourite playground, are with crimson stainsFamiliar, as the morn with pearly dews. How sweet the prospect of yon watery glade,With its gray locks clustering in pensive , shapd like old monastic turrets, the smooth meadow ground serene and still,295 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine As one journeys on to Liege, Roman influ-ences have left many and visible
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