The guard in full military dress at the portal of this mausoleum stands watch over the remains of some of the country’s most eminent citizens.  Among them: a beloved poetess, former presidents, freedom fighters and artists.  Built between 1714 and 1745, the building was then the third home of the brotherhood of the Jesuit Order.  The Jesuits were eventually forced to leave the island and the building was ceded to a series of different uses over two centuries until around 1958, when the then-Dominican president, Rafael Trujillo, had the building restored with his final resting place in mind. (The chandelier hanging from the nave was a gift from Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco.) But Trujillo was never buried there, having fallen out of favor with the public and shot to death by a group of assassins in 1961.