Giant John Paul II statue unveiled
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
13.04.2013 16:15
A five tonne, 14 metre-high statue of John Paul II has been unveiled on a hill in Czestochowa, southern Poland.
photo - PAP/Waldemar Deska
The fibre-glass statue of the late Polish Pope stands near the most important pilgrimage site in Poland, the Jasna Gora monastery.
The statue faces, not the monastery and the holy shrine of the Black Madonna – as a local Facebook protest has called for – but the town of Wadowice, the home-town of Karol Wojtyla who in 1978 became the first non-Italian pope since 1523. (pg)