Bingham Bulletin | 1918-05-31 | Page 8 | Sculptor's Masterpiece

i Sculptor's Masterpiece, The famous statue of St. Bruno at Rome was made by the great master of French sculpture, Houdon (1741-1828). (1741-1828). ' At the Invitation of Franklin, tloudon visited America In the year 1785 and took casts for the statue of Washington, now at Richmond, Va, aid by Lafayette to be the best likeness like-ness obtulned of the "American Pa-riot" Pa-riot" St. Bruno belonged to the or-fler or-fler of Trapplsts. whose chief law was illence. Popo Clement XV, on seeing see-ing the statue of St. Bruno, exclaimed! "He would speak did not the rule of bis order forbid."