There were few detailed architectural plans, or engineering drawings; all that was technically certain was that the new cathedral would be constructed around and over the old earthen church, and foundation footings were accordingly placed outside the walls of old St Francis’s. As the new stone walls would rise, they would gradually hide the adobe elevations; there would for years be a complete church within one on the outside, unfinished. With that much to go on, a cornerstone could be set down as a promise. The cornerstone contained gold, silver, and copper coins; newspapers of the day;
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