There was a lot of devotion to Saint Theresa with our traditional priests back in the late 1800s. She is one of our youngest saints because she died when she was twenty-four. In 1997, she was made a Doctor of the Church, and that is really something.

Doing the grotto was one of my goals, but it was really begun by Father Joy, because of a miracle that happened to him.

Father was kneeling, giving his thanksgiving one morning after mass, and he was sick at the time. He was praying, and all of a sudden he had a vision. In the vision, he got a perfume smell of roses and a shower of rose petals fell at his feet. When he described it to the parishioners the next Sunday, he told them he didn't know what the reason was.

He said it was either that St. Theresa wanted the people to pray more, or that she wanted something erected in her honour. Right away he took up a collection and he got a thousand dollars and put up a statue. The St. Theresa's statue in the church came from Rome. Devotions to St. Theresa continue to this day.

In my mind, if Father Joy thought it was important, we should also have something outside the church. So, we built a grotto to St. Theresa in front of the museum.