[278] He was buried here, and this inscription was formerly in the church: “Sub hac tribuna jacet corpus condam Wilfredi comitis filius Wilfredi, simili modo condam comitis bonæ memoriæ, Dimittat ei Dñs. Amen. Qui obiit, vi. Kal. Madii sub era DCCCCLII.” (A.D. 914).

[279] San Cucufate del Vallés is not far from Barcelona; it has a fine early cloister somewhat like that of Gerona Cathedral, an early church with parallel triapsidal east end, octagonal lantern and tower on south side.—See illustrations in Parcerisa, Recuerdos, &c., de Esp. Cataluña, ii. 23, &c.

[280] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. 12.

[281] According to Ford it was built by Guillermo II., Patriarch of Jerusalem, in imitation of the church of the Holy Sepulchre.—Handbook for Travellers in Spain, p. 416. It was one of the churches founded by the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the year 1141, in which they sent emissaries to Spain for the purpose.—Viage Literario á las Iglesias de España, xviii. 139. The necrology of the monastery contained the obit of a canon who came from Jerusalem, called Carfilio, as follows: “Obiit Caifilius frater Saucti Sepulchri, qui edificavit ecclesiam sanctæ Annæ.—Viage Lit., xvii. 144. See ground-plan of this church on [Plate XVII.]

[282] [Plate XVI.]

[283] The inscription on the right hand of this door is as follows:—

+ In: noīe: Dñi: nri: Ihu : Xri: ad. honorē. + Sce: Trinitatis: Pats̄. et. Filii. et. Sp̄s. Sc̄i. ac. Beate. Virginis: Marie. et Sce. crucis. Sce. q. Eulalie. Virginis. et. Martiris. Xri. ac. civis Barchn. cujus. sōm. corpus. in ista. requiescit. sede. opus. istius. eccē. fuit. inceptum. Kl. Madii año. Dñi. M.CCXCVIII. regnāte. illustrissimo. Dño. Jacobo. rege. Aragonū. Valn̄. Sardinie. Corsice. + comite. Q. Barchinone.

The other inscription is on the left side of the same door:—

In. noīe. Dñi. nri. Ihu. Xri. Kds. Novēbr. anno. Dñi. M.CCC.XXIX. regnante. Dño. Alfōso. rege. Aragonū. Valēcie. Sardinie. Corsice. ac. comite. Barchn. opus. hujus. sedis. operabatur. ad. laudē. Dei. ac. Bte. M Sce + Sceq. Eulaie.

[284] The inscription which records the depositing of the body of Sta. Eulalia in the crypt below the choir in A.D. 1339, says that “el Maestro” Jayme Fabra and the masons and workmen of the church, Juan Berguera, Juan de Puigmolton, Bononato Peregrin, Guillen Ballester, and Salvador Bertran, covered the urn with a tomb and canopy of stone.—Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. p. 63. Diego, Historia de los Condes de Barcelona, pp. 298-301.