HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. A scholar of sacred matters, while searching through the Vatican archives, found an old invoice dated May 10, 1823, issued by a restorer who had worked in the monumental church of St. Peter in Rome. Given the importance of the document, we believe it is a pleasure to reproduce it in full:
RESTORATION AND DECORATION COMPANY
VIA DEL PLEBISCITO 1, R O M E.
Rome, May 10, 1823
TO THE esteemed MANAGEMENT OF RESTORATIONS S. PETER, ROME
Renewed Paradise
Redone the beard of the Father Eternal
Freshened the wound of St. Sebastian
Redone the pig's tail of St. Stephen
Retouched the breast of St. Eufemia
Put a horn on Moses
Given a hand on the backside of St. Anna
Restored the balls of St. Bartholomew
Filled the hole of St. Brigid
Polished the chapel of St. Dominic
Widened the niche of St. Lucia
Straightened the rod of St. Christopher
Made several shavings on St. Eufemia
Cleaned the bird of St. Francis
Removed the cobwebs from the front of St. Clare
Made a new saw for St. Joseph
Introduced a pipe into the organ of St. Cecilia
Redone the backside of an angel behind the altar
A total of baiocchi 69.23