Hearing that a model of the Cave of Lourdes in France had been built at the Vatican in Rome in 1891, Father Pélu, who was the representative of the priests in the Goto Islands, created Japan’s first Lourdes in Imochiura in 1899, by calling for followers in the Goto Islands to collect stones from around the islands.
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