The Alhambra . unate grand master, and readily gaveup his body to Don Alonzo Fernandez de Cordova, who camefrom Alcala to seek it. The Christians of the frontier unitedin paying the last sad honours to his memory. His body wasplaced upon a bier, covered with the pennon of the order ofAlcantara; and the broken cross, the emblem of his confidenthopes and fatal disappointment, was borne before it. In thisway his remains were carried back in funeral procession, throughthe mountain tract which he had traversed so resolutely.^Vhereve^ it passed, through a town or village, the populacefollowed, with
The Alhambra . unate grand master, and readily gaveup his body to Don Alonzo Fernandez de Cordova, who camefrom Alcala to seek it. The Christians of the frontier unitedin paying the last sad honours to his memory. His body wasplaced upon a bier, covered with the pennon of the order ofAlcantara; and the broken cross, the emblem of his confidenthopes and fatal disappointment, was borne before it. In thisway his remains were carried back in funeral procession, throughthe mountain tract which he had traversed so resolutely.^Vhereve^ it passed, through a town or village, the populacefollowed, with tears and lamentations, bewailing him as avaliant knight and a martyr to the faith. His body wasinterred in the chapel of the convent of Santa Maria de 412 THE ALHAMBRA Almocovara, and on his sepulchre may still be seen engravenin quaint and antique Spanish the following testimonial to hisbravery :— HERE LIES ONE WHOSE HEART NEVER KNEW FEAR.{Aqiii yaz aqtiel, que par neva c(sa miuca ere-favor en sen corazon.). ^^ ?^r I I ^\
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