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Like Alfredo Raimondo, Joffery Cochennic, Sr. was also visited by the Holy Mother.
In 1974, Joffery, then a salesman, routinely stopped at his local church to pray. One day, he thought about how much he wanted to see Mary. She appeared to him in an indescribably beautiful form. He went home and told his wife, Kate, about it. Between tears of joy, he said he would build a shrine and devote his life to doing her will.
To share the beauty of this miracle with the world, he carved her likeness out of local red cypress, made her eyes a deep blue, and put a golden crown on her head. He never saw Mary again, but he saw sacred images in the clouds and trees.
He worked on the shrine from 1979 until death, often getting help from his fishermen friends. He used his carpentry skills to add more figures, benches, and a cover.
