Marquette University to install a new grotto to the Blessed Virgin Mary

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marquette University President Michael R. Lovell announced that the university will install a grotto of the Blessed Virgin just west of St. Joan of Arc Chapel. The grotto will be in place by the beginning of the 2018-19 academic year.

President Lovell recently completed an intensive 18-month Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP) based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, integrating university mission into the way leaders lead, teach and live. Lovell said his vision for the grotto was connected to his final project for the ICP program.

The project, titled Sacred Spaces, catalogued the numerous religious spaces and artifacts on campus that signify Marquette’s Catholic and Jesuit identity. Through the project, a website was created that allows individuals to take a physical or virtual pilgrimage of the Sacred Spaces on campus that highlight the ways the Marquette community lives its Jesuit and Catholic identity. Lovell said the installation of the grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary will add another important sacred space to campus.

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Update:
We're told that Marquette is raising money for the grotto. They need $150,000. To make a donation, the contact person is Ms. Molly Eldridge at (414)288-4497 or mary.eldridge@marquette.edu.