
“The Main River flowed with lordly indifference past the rubble of this ancient imperial center of the Holy Roman Empire and the Cathedral where some of its emperors had been crowned. Again, a great structure of the Middle Ages stood tall against the fallen building of later centuries. The Cathedral sacristan asked me if I would like to see the scalp of St. Bartholomew and pulled out a drawer for me to see. If such it was, I can only tell you that he had a good head of yellowish-grayish hair.”