Week 107 7/28/17
We often take a trip to Fatima Shrine for the Christmas display. It is about one mile from our house. Its not a place we come to walk at other times of year, usually. The constant music is annoying, but the trees and landscaping are beautiful. There were quite a few other visitors. Just about everything is marked with a plaque with the donor's name.
One feature of the shrine is a gigantic rosary. Each "bead" is a boulder with Hail Mary printed in a different world language. I think the types of stones are significant too, but I don't see any information about it now. This split stone and the chain and cross are part of the rosary.
Paul stands on the Iowa stone (his birthplace) on the map.
The sign on this tree slice mentions "sequoia and redwood trees" but doesn't say which this specimen is.
Here we walked along the stations of the cross pathway. A young nun was taking copious notes, maybe a journal or notes on the shrine itself.
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