THE EVERBURNING LAMP OF VENICE
Every night below the Statue of Justice at the south side of St. Mark's, in Venice, a lamp is lit. Three hundred years ago a citizen of Venice was found murdered in his own house. The case, aroused great excitement in the city, but the criminal disappeared, and could not be found. Suspicion then fell on the son of the victim, a boy of ten, who used to quarrel with his father. The boy was sentenced to death without trial,' and was beheaded. Some years later the real murderer was found. There was a great upheaval in the city. Venetians were always superstitious and they feared that God might avenge the death of the child, so (hey made a vow to keep a lamp burning evevy night on St. Mark's Church opposite the place where they killed tho boy. Three; hundred years liave passed and the little lamp still burns under the Statue of Justice.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 3
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