A giant pope to watch over Santiago?
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The neighbors couldn’t help but notice the huge head of Pope John Paul II rising out of the sculptor’s workshop next door.
Hidden behind the walls, the pope’s left hand gripped Jesus on the cross while his right extended outward, an imitation of the gesture he had made during his visit to Santiago two decades earlier.
But this was no private religious homage — it was the makings of a 40-foot-tall bronze statue meant to tower over a bohemian neighborhood in this capital city.
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