Unveiled on June 4, 2000 to coincide with the two thousand years of Christianity celebrations and 80 years of the Łódź diocese, Krystyna Fałdyga-Solska’s 2.2m bronze and granite sculpture shows John Paul II as a much younger man, a deliberate illusion referring to his visit to the city in 1987. The three granite blocks he’s standing on symbolise the three millennia between ourselves and the birth of Christ.