The world's tallest statue of the late Pope John Paul II a white fiberglass figure with height of 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) has been erected in the southern Polish city of Czestochowa a predominantly Catholic countrys most important pilgrimage site.
The statute towers over the Jasna Gora monastery.
Funded by a private investor and put up on private grounds, the Polish-born pontiff appears smiling and stretching his arms to the world.
Workers were spotted yesterday joining the pieces together and painting them before the official unveiling of the statue Saturday.
Leszek Lyson, who is funding the project, called the pope "a great and good man who has done a lot for the world: ended communism and opened borders in Europe, reached to people in his pilgrimages around the world. His statue "should make everyone stop and think about life."
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