He was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb.

Pope Julius II summons Michelangelo to Rome to design the pope's tomb.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, a sculptor from Florence, is first commissioned craft the Pope's tomb in Rome.

He was invited back to Rome in 1505 by the newly appointed Pope Julius II and was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb.

On the fourth anniversary of Pope John Paul's death, 2 April 2009, Dziwisz told reporters of a presumed miracle that had recently occurred at the former pope's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica.

The stones obtained were used for the basement of the obelisk of Piazza del Popolo, the restoration of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, the pope's tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore and other structures.

The sack of Rome, when the brute and lascivious soldiery of the Emperor Charles V raped the women, robbed the churches, and broke open a long-dead Pope's tomb to steal the ring from his finger, was only one of the invasions of this long-suffering land.