Buried
The crypts beneath the main aisle hold the remains of notable persons, including:
- Dukes of Masovia:
- Stanisław
- Janusz III
- Adam Kazanowski
- composers and musicians of the Royal Cappella Vasa, e.g. Asprillo Pacelli, whose magnificent black-marble epitaph with composer's bust was reconstructed after the war
- the last of Polish monarchs Stanisław August Poniatowski, who was also crowned in the cathedral
- statesman Stanisław Małachowski, whose white-marble monument was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen (destroyed, August 21, 1944, when a German tank filled with explosives struck the cathedral's southern wall; reconstructed, 1965)
- painter Marcello Bacciarelli
- writer Henryk Sienkiewicz
- presidents of Poland:
- Gabriel Narutowicz
- Ignacy Mościcki
- premier and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- General Kazimierz Sosnkowski
- primates:
- August Hlond
- Józef Glemp
- Stefan Wyszyński
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Famous quotes containing the word buried:
“Lord Thomas was buried in the church,
Fair Ellinor in the choir;
And out from her bosom there grew a red rose
And out of Lord Thomas a briar.”
—Unknown. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (l. 77–80)
“The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)