The painting was made by Leonard Lepszy to a new altar funded in 1893. Composition of the painting refers to baroque, mystical representations, disseminating a modern at that times form of piety - mysticism relying on striving to indirect contact with God by personal experience.
Agata Felczyńska , "St. John Cantius", [in:] "The Sacred Lesser Poland Heritage", 2023, source: https://sdm.upjp2.edu.pl/en/works/st-john-cantius-3