Statue titled 'Angels Unawares' on display at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans Share Updated: 12:22 PM CDT Apr 9, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 12:22 PM CDT Apr 9, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript TEMPORARY DISPLAY AT NOTRE DAME SEMINARY. IT HAS GOT ITS OWN REAL STORIES TO TELL HEATH. REAL LIVES INDEED ANGELS UNAWARES DEPICTS REAL LIVES OF REAL PEOPLE REPRESENTATIVE OF US ALL JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BETTER WAY FOR OUR FAMILY. BUT WE BELIEVE IN IMMIGRATION. AND TAKING CARE OF REFUGEES WE BELIEVE IN THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A SAFER WAY OF LIFE AT THREE TONS IN 20 FEET LONG. NO EASY TASK SETTING THE SCULPTURE UP FOR PUBLIC VIEW A MONUMENTAL WORK OF ART ANGELS UNAWARES IS A LARGER THAN LIFE DEPICTION OF MIGRANTS OVER THE CENTURIES. LEAVING THEIR HOMELANDS IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING MORE. SOMETHING BETTER THIS WORK CREATED BY SCULPTOR. TIMOTHY SCHMALLZ IS A REPLICA OF ONE COMMISSION TO BUY POPE FRANCIS. STANDS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY SAINT PETER’S SQUARE AT THE VATICAN THIS IS AN ACTUAL GIFT OF THE POPE THE REPLICA TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. IT’S TITLE COMES FROM THE BIBLE THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 VERSE 2. NEGLECT TO SHOW HOSPITALITY TO STRANGERS FOR THEREBY SOME HAVE ENTERTAINED. ANGELS UNAWARES AS WE LOOK AT THE FACES AND AS WE REALIZE THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES THAT PEOPLE ARE FROM WE ARE RELATED TO THEM. IT’S NOT JUST PEOPLE OR THE SCULPTURE OF PEOPLE, BUT WE CAN LITERALLY LOOK AT THAT AND SEE THAT’S PART OF MY HISTORY IN THAT BOAT. THIS US TOUR A GIFT FROM THE POPE. IT WILL LEAVE HERE. IT WILL GO TO NEW YORK CITY FOR ITS NEXT STOP HERE IN THE US GUYS B