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Ducal Family: Goethe died in Weimar on March 22, 1832. After a state funeral, his coffin was placed beside that of Schiller in the mausoleum of the ducal family. Goethe's later years are especially well recorded in his conversations, of which those with Johann Peter Eckermann are the best known. Other conversations were used by Thomas Mann in his novel The Beloved Returns (1939), which is a detailed portrait of Goethe in 1816.
Places of Pilgrimage and their dates would technically include the above-mentioned Echternach, with its Whit-Tuesday Dancing Procession to St. Willibrord, and I suppose also the spa of Mondorf-les-Bains, with its somewhat self-conscious "Blessing of the Motor Cars," a ceremony performed in connection with the Feast of St. Christopher, in July; but the National Pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Luxembourg, in the cathedral of the capital, are pre-eminent as expressions of deep religious feeling. These occur in the period from the 3rd to the 5th Sunday after Easter. On the 5th Sunday, there is a climactic procession, with participation by the Grand-Ducal family, to celebrate the "Closing of the Octave of Our Lady of Luxembourg."
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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