Final identification of the rest of their family took years, and they were ceremonially buried at the St Peter and Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg in 1998.

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It is fitting that we do so here, in our National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

WHITEHOUSE: Remembering Dr. Dorothy Height

In 1990, 83 years after President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone, President Bush watched as the final stone of America's National Cathedral, the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, was lifted into place.

CNN: Monday,