What Really Happened At Bethlehem?

"My sole purpose in going to Florence," wrote Mark Twain in his book, A Tramp Abroad, "was to see this immortal 'Moses,' and by good fortune I was just in time, for they were already preparing to remove it to a more private and better-protected place because a fashion of robbing the great galleries was prevailing in Europe at that time."  That was in 1880 but today, tourists still flock to see that giant sculpture of Moses by the master Michelangelo, which you’ll find in the Church of San Pietro.  The sculptor depicted Moses as a powerful figure with a no-nonsense, stern looking face.