 But it would be untypical for any sculptor because it is unique in the history of sculpture on the whole.Unapologetically, the statue was created to emotionally move the visitor in the room where the blessed (soon to be canonised) Jesuit novice died, next to a chapel in the Jesuit novitiate at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.The pope honoured the new devotional site with his visit – on foot – the day following its inauguration in 1703.