Finding an old short story about Soul/Spirit and a sculptor

Hello everybody.
Apologize for grammars and everything else forward. English was not my first language. Anyways, feel free to correct any grammatical mistake that I made so I could improve myself.

As the title suggested, I want to find an old short story allegedly name "Linh Hồn" (In my language, Vietnamese, that mean Spirit/Soul. iirc it was translated to Vietnamese, the source material was somewhere else. I read it in a newspaper when I began to learn how to read, which was almost 20 years ago.

The story was set in medieval Europe, with a young sculptor as the main character. He fell in love with a prestigious young lady in his region. Had nothing in hand but his talent, he created a sculpture of the lady in question, gave it to her as a confession. His confession met with not just rejection, but disgust. He then halfheartedly bury the sculpture in his garden, and then proceed to become a monk at the local Christian monastery. The young sculpture lived a quiet and uneventful life, up until his death. Decades passed, they only kept his skull, because as stated above, the old monk was one of many, nameless, and the catacomb could hold only so much.
His old home was gifted to a convent of nuns, and only when a young nun died of a disease and they needed to bury her in the garden that the old sculpture was found. It was forever revered, but its creator, the sculptor, the monk, the skull was forever in obscure, only dust remains.
One of the most haunting comparison was a very small detail. One day, when they brought the old skulls of past monks to be bathe in sunlight, a small lizard come and stayed in it for a while. The author compares the lizard insignificance to the bright and passionate ideas that've been housed inside the man head decades and decades ago. But all is lost to time and apathy

I've been searching for the story for years, scouring the internet and libraries at my city but never found anything.
Does it rings any bell ?