Shrine of St. Therese

Chris and I had a beautiful day off today!!!

We thought we would go explore a place called the St. Therese Shrine. We heard it is somewhat of a tourist destination.

This is the small Catholic Chapel that is a part of the Shrine to St. Therese. It is quite beautiful but not very ornate.

The Cathedral and most everything else is hidden in this small patch of trees on the coast.

In case you can't read the sign it says "Shrine Chapel." It is a little funny because there is pretty much no where else to go except to the large group of trees with the long path leading to it.

 

 The door to the Chapel is beautiful, and the inside of the Chapel had some beautiful natural light!!!

 

This is a bronze statue of St. Therese in front of the Chapel.

There are 15 of these "memorial stone displays" all over the grounds (don't know what else to call them). They were quite beautiful with the moss grown up on them, gave it some gorgeous colors.

The grounds were really beautiful!

The trees, mosses and rocks were so colorful!!! Not to mention the bright blue mountains peeking through in the background, all make it so gorgeous here!!!

The view of the coast was quite beautiful too!

 Everything is so blue due to atmospheric perspective. I love it!!!

My cute husband ran off to the water while I took pictures.

This sign marks the other Shrine features, but we couldn't see any of them because they were covered in a blanket of white snow.

That leaves us with an adventure for another day.

Many more Alaska adventures to come. . .