Timothy Schmalz, whose Catholic and pro-life sculptures are displayed around the world, created a memorial sculpture of Charlie Kirk that soon will be displayed at Ave Maria University.
“The days after the murder of Charlie Kirk, Pope Leo was quoted saying he was praying for him and his family,” Schmalz wrote on his LinkedIn profile Sept. 26. “The day after this tragedy I started this sculpture of Charlie. This is in a sense my visual prayer. It is now finished and ready to be cast in bronze.”
Kirk showed an interest in Catholicism, as CatholicVote previously reported, and in the wake of his tragic murder, people across the nation returned to church or started attending for the first time in their lives.
Schmalz’s sculptures in the U.S. include one soon to be displayed in the state capitol of Texas depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary pregnant with the child Jesus.
