John Paul II Monument in Tarnow

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TARNÓW

John Paul II

Monument stands in Tarnów's Cathedral Square

The work of Bronisław Chrom of Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts, the John Paul II monument in Tarnów was the first one to be erected in Poland. Unveiled on June 29, 1981, the bronze sculpture stands 14.5 feet high adjacent to the south wall of the Cathedral's presbytery. It lacks a pedestal, this because of the sculptor's desire to accentuate its relationship to the ground from which it arises much as a tree trunk - a reference to the Pope having arisen from the Polish lands.

The photo on the right, which dates from the Pontiff's visit to Tarnów in 1987, provides a visual reference to the monument's scale.

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