A year into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV returned to the sanctuary where he sought solitude and prayer in the hours after his election — a quiet threshold between the man he was and the office he accepted. There, he unveiled a newly commissioned fresco, transforming a private moment of spiritual reckoning into a permanent, public testament. It is a gesture as old as the Church itself: the marking of human passage through sacred art, so that what was felt in silence might endure in stone and pigment.