Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 135
h was called thatof Raphael, although there was no good reasonfor this. At length, in 1833, three hundred andthirteen years after his death, some antiquariansbegan to dispute about this skull, and received per-mission from the Pope, Gregory .XVL, to make asearch for the bones of Raphael in the… … THE SISTINE MADONNA.—PAINTED BY RAPHAEL. SPECIALLY REPRODlCED FOR ST. NICHOLAS. i88i.] WHAT MAKES THE GRASSES GROW? 121 really his. Finally, a grand funeral service washeld. Gregory XVI. gave a marble sarcophagus,in which the bones were placed and interred rever-ently in their old resting-place.…
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