KRAKÓW John Paul II Monument located in Kraków's Rakowiecki Cemetary The monument was unveiled on April 10, 2005, that is on the morrow of the funeral of John Paul II in Rome. The work of Czeslaw Dzwigaj, the 5 foot monument of the kneeling Pope stands at the entrance of the path leading to the burial places of the Pope's parents and brother which the Pope visited on each of his nine pilgrimages to Poland.