“Homeless Jesus” by Timothy Schmalz, 2013
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, Trastevere
Rome, June 2019
“‘Homeless Jesus’, also known as ‘Jesus the Homeless’ (French: Jésus le sans-abri), is a bronze sculpture by Timothy Schmalz depicting Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. The original sculpture was installed in 2013 at Regis College, a theological college federated with the University of Toronto. Other copies of the statue were installed in several other locations beginning in 2014. As of 2017, over 50 copies were created and placed around the world.” (Homeless Jesus, Wikipedia)
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