Painting at Franciscan University Depicts Pope as University Student

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS) -- A life-size painting of Pope John Paul II as a young university student now hangs in the lobby of the John Paul II Library at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

The painting by California artist Lisa Steinbrenner Andrews, who specializes in portraits and still-life subjects, was unveiled at the university April 8, just hours after Pope John Paul's funeral.

"It's a portrait of Karol Wojtyla as a university student destined to be pope," Andrews said. The painting is called "During Unrest the Lord Will Strike," a phrase taken from the work of one of the pope's favorite writers, 19th-century poet Juliusz Slowacki, who predicted 100 years before the election of Pope John Paul II that one day there would be a Slavic pope.

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