There is a grotto to Our Lady of Lourdes at a monastery nearby that I visit some times when I'm driving by. For the past year or so there has been this little thing there that is curious. It looks like it used to hang on someone's wall, it is a wooden 'case' about two feet tall and a foot wide, with a glass window an a little porcelain statue of pieta in it. Below that, there is a little frame with picture of the last supper. I thought that was it, but today it was evident it was a little compartment since it was open. There were two rosaries, what looked like a blessing cross inside and papers. I'm curious what this was - was it a monks or a priests? Some kind of special thing to keep those things in? It always seemed strange to me this antique looking thing was in there, in the grotto where it gets wet and rots whenever it rains but it seems even stranger now since it seems like it was important to someone. I am thinking it must be something the monks put there since they regularly clean out anything other people bring there and leave.
