06.02.2015
Christ Church Cathedral Chosen for ‘Homeless Jesus’ Sculpture
Christ Church Cathedral has been chosen as the Dublin location for a sculpture known as ‘Homeless Jesus’. The seven foot wide bronze by Canadian sculptor, Tim Schmalz, will be blessed at the cathedral by Dean Dermot Dunne on Good Friday, April 3.
‘Homeless Jesus’ depicts a faceless cloaked figure lying on a park bench. Those seeing it only realise it is a statue of Jesus when they notice the holes in his feet. It has been gifted to the city of Dublin by an anonymous North American Episcopalian benefactor who has given the sculptures to a number of other cities including New York, London and Vatican City in Rome.
Dean Dunne said he was delighted that Schmalz had chosen Christ Church as the location for the sculpture. Irish Times readers were asked to nominate locations for the statue last December and the sculptor visited a number of locations in Dublin in January. He chose Christ Church Cathedral because he said it was “the spiritual heart of Dublin”.
An area of the park around the cathedral will be landscaped to accommodate the sculpture.