Only within the Augustinian monks. Covered with lime, the remains of the royal family remained there for about 25 years in the same stairs leading to the Royal Pantheon, the second break-in, right, a passage closed by a wooden door leads to a prohibited place for mortals. The walls are of stone, granite flooring and vaulted ceiling. Sixteen square meters where lie the remains of three dead last Bourbons. Real is rotten. Only 51 members of the community Agustina, who guards the Monastery of El Escorial from 1885, access to this compartment. The Royal Family surrender them to their deaths in a ceremony that is repeated for centuries.
"Father Prior Members and parents acknowledge paternity your body donated by Mrs Maria Mercedes de Borbon y Orleans, which according to the style and order of his majesty hath been given that I will deliver to have it in your care and custodia . As we spoke this sentence, the Minister of Justice Margaret Marshall of Ghent (in Spain the Minister of Justice is the Notario Mayor Kingdom), noted the open coffin containing the remains of the Countess of Barcelona.
The scene took place on January 4th of 2000 in the Panteon de Reyes of El Escorial. The prior and the 12 parents approached the present Augustinian coffin and said: "I Remember". Earlier, Fernando Almansa, head of the Royal House had given the prior of the Monastery of the King a letter in which you learn to surrender the body of his mother.
Closed to the Public
Once again lifted the coffin and a record of delivery, the Augustinians took over the key of the coffin and the body of Dona Maria de las Mercedes went to the real rotten. Little is known of this room, as well as the next rotten infants. Both are closed to the 700,000 visitors who annually visit the Escorial. In real rotten, and the Kings of Spain are kings of the mothers between 20 and 30 years. Time is deemed necessary for the completion of the biological process of natural attrition.
There is no document that records the date of its creation, but had to be very close to the Royal Pantheon, opened in 1654, during the reign of Philip IV. Parents Saints Ximenez, the major scholars of the Pantheon in the seventeenth century, did not speak of rotten, but the testimony on the first, in 1854, is very revealing.
In Historia del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial, Fray Jose de Quevedo, librarian of the monastery, account: "The doors are in the rest of the second staircase leading to the rotten, explain its use to eliminate the many tales about they are. They are three quarters as a bedroom, without any light or ventilation. After completing the formalities and delivery Oficios Royal body that has to be one of the pantheons, Prior, accompanied by some monks, elderly, low to the Pantheon where the corpse was carried by some masons and other servants. These detisu or taken off the velvet covering the sealed lead box containing the body, and together they lead to rotten. While demolishing the brick masons, the other four or more open holes in the lead box, place it inside the room or bedroom four wooden cradles that hold two or three inches off the ground, and when the masons re-form the double wall demolished. There are the corpses of 30 or 40 or more years until it consumed the dry and fired when no odor are transferred to the respective Pantheon. Boxes outside the real people who have to move to Infants remain in the sacristy of the Pantheon, until you replace them in the lead came up with the corpse. The Kings of breaking up and use for decorations, because they should not have used as their remains were placed in urns of marble. " What is not mentioned is that Quevedo fray within niche placed promontories of quicklime and out, a tombstone of black marble and the name of who the remains belong.
The real function is to reduce the rotten bodies to adapt to the tiny chests lead of just one meter long and 40 centimeters wide, which, once sealed, are inserted into one of the 26 sarcophagi of the Panteon de Reyes . "They were so great kings in the world who wanted a place to bury pequeno " said the mid-seventeenth century Holy Father, reader of scriptures Escorial.
Today, stay in this situated in the basement of the Basilica, three corpses awaiting final tomb, that of Queen Victoria Eugenia, grandmother of Don Juan Carlos, who died in 1969 but until 1985 she was transferred to El Escorial from Lausanne, the Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, which lies in the monastery since April 3, 1993, and the Countess of Barcelona, over to the Augustinians on January 4, 2000.
Alfonso XIII, King's grandfather, never came to pass rotten.
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