El cadàver del rei jaume ii exhibited at the catedral de mallorca. Així ho narrated gaston vuillier, on pages 11 and 12 of the forgotten islands (1893):
torches are lit, and we soon find ourselves in front of a black marble sarcophagus topped with a scepter, a sword and a royal crown. On one side i read engraved in the marble the following inscription: aquí reposa el cadáver del serenísimo señor don jayme de aragón ii, rey de mallorca, que merce la más pía y laudable memoria en los annales. Fallen in may 28, 1311. “open,” said sellarès in a low voice. A key penetrates the marble, one of the short sides is removed: a coffin is there, it is pulled out. The king's corpse is before our eyes, draped in ermine, its mouth wide open and its eye socket deeply hollowed. Large drops of wax falling from the candles appear as frozen tears on his fierce face: it seems that this corpse is suffering from the gazes which disturb its last sleep. In the light of the torches, the crown sparkles, and the sword blazes as if there were still glorious rays in this funereal remains of royalty. After a few moments of this spectacle we push the coffin back into the tomb, we turn the key and we cross the immense nave again, where our footsteps resonate on the flagstones, then we see the stars again in the deep blue sky and the white houses silvered by the light of the moon. “well,” said sellares to me when we had left the dark vaults, “what are you thinking about? »
- “i think,” i said to him, “of those who die ignored in the fold of a hill and whose remains sleep in eternal shadow without any gaze being able to analyze the horrors that death has engraved on their faces. And don't you think there is sadness in thinking that this king who was great, who commanded these seas and whose power, crossing abysses, extended over all of aragon, is at the mercy of the first sacristan who comes along, who, for a few pennies, delivers his sad remains to the curiosity of all? » “a few years ago,” a priest who accompanied us told me, “the royal clothes, worn away by time, revealed the corpse almost entirely naked. Queen isabella of spain, having witnessed this desecration, remained saddened and wanted to see the body covered. Today a new ermine hides her nudity. We even had to put a glass on this coffin in order to prevent the sacrilegious hands of certain travelers from tearing off the shreds of clothing, pieces of the skin of the king's face and even the teeth, which they took with them as souvenirs of their visit. »
currently the tombs are in another sarcophagus at the chapel of the trinity, although the ancient sarcophagus is preserved at the museu diocesà. Date: 1893.
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