Years of labor resulted in a garden of shrines made out of geodes. According to the Dubois County Visitors Center and Tourism Commission, one priest took 12 years to create a garden of shrines. Officials say these shrines are constructed completely of geodes, a type of rock found in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, and have been used as a decorative element in the construction of landscaping and homes since the 19th century. According to Tim Bell of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Father Phillip Ottavi built the grotto. Father Ottavi also was the director of the Sons of Divine Providence Home for mentally disabled men from the 1950s to his passing in the early 1970s.