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His Family When Angel: GUIMERA, ge-ma-ra', Angel (1849-1924), Spanish dramatist and poet of the Catalan language. He was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 6, 1849, of a Catalan father, who returned to Catalonia with his family when Angel was seven. Angel was educated in Barcelona, worked briefly in the family wine business in the village of El Vendrell, and from 1872 lived in Barcelona. He died in Barcelona on July 18, 1924.
The central porch was dedicated to the Virgin, that or the right to Christ, and that on the left to the Passion. Among the statues of the saints in the left porch are the statues of St. Nicaise and the smiling angel which is known as Le Sourirc de Reims (the Smile of Reims). The cathedral was severely damaged in World War I; the great rose window and the Angel spire, which rose 59 feet above the roof, were destroyed; the exterior walls were damaged and a hole was pierced in the stone Roof of the apse. John D. Rockefeller bore the cost, about $1,000,000, of repairing the damage and the rebuilt cathedral was consecrated in 1938. The oldest church in Reims is the abbey-church of St. Remi which was built in the llth century.
The post of shogun was inherited by ;mbers of the Minamoto family until the OOs, when the Ashikaga family took over. his family ruled until the 1600s, when the akugawa family assumed the shogunate. , 1868 the last Tokugawa shogun was reed by a court revolution to hand his >wers back to the emperor.
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