Monument of the Sacred Father John Paul II

The monument is located in the courtyard of the Bishop’s Palace and depicts the Sacred Father wearing a mitre and holding a cross. It is carved out of a huge driftwood oak trunk recovered from the Sava River. The oak trunk was donated by the family of Mr. Slavko Lukač from Vrpolje, and three sculptors of the Ernestinovo Sculptor Colony – Mato Tijardović, Siniša Tešankić and Ivan Matović Lasta – carved the sculpture weighing 2.5 tons and 2.5 metres high.