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Immigrant priest Father Wernerus visited the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa (largest grotto ever built - it has a restaurant!) and got inspired. A speck of cement is hard to find, as Father Wernerus thoroughly encrusted every millimeter of space with rocks, minerals and glass shards collected by the barrelful from a glass factory in Kokomo, IN. The majority of the stuff was built between 1925-1929 - this man was busy, collecting rocks from local quarries as well as petitioning friends far and wide to send specimens from all 48 states (remember your US history). For example, the Tree of Life is made with petrified tree branches from the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Father Wernerus died of pneumonia in 1931.
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