In 1992 the parish of Saint Bernard’s in BellaVista, Arkansas commissioned Lynn Kircherto create a crucifix for their new church.Starting with a 18” maquette, the artist wenton to create an evocative life size corpus.10 years later, the torso of this corpus waspresented to His Holiness John Paul II inRome by the artist and his mom. The editionof these torsos is presently sold out.This 15" bust is modeled after the largertorso, which is found today somewhere in theVatican Collection.

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