There was talk of a facade with two towers a hundred feet high, and a dome eighty-five feet high at the crossing of the transepts, and a nave two hundred feet long. The cornerstone was blessed after vespers on its Sunday, and on the following Saturday, the city awoke to learn that it had been stolen, and its contents rifled, never to be recovered. The act might have served as a forecast of the halting history of the cathedral church; but the fact was, Lamy had begun the construction, and all its later vicissitudes could seem only a repetition of the pattern of his whole life in the diocese
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