Worlds Largest Monstrance - St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, U.S.A.

The nine foot tall, 700 pound monstrance covered in gold leaf took two years to carve from linden
wood by Stepfan Niedorezo who used Renaissance methods to create the masterpiece. Called Our
Lady of the Sign Ark of Mercy, it depicts the Blessed Mother standing over the Ark of Covenant to
symbolize her as the link between the old and new covenants. She is clothed with the sun, with the
moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars,as she is depicted in the Book of
Revelation. She is pointing to the Arc of the Covenant. The monstrance places the Eucharist at her
breast.