A Mexican pro-life group dedicated a shrine in Guadalajara last month in memory of aborted children. Called Rachel’s Grotto, it also serves as a place for reconciliation between parents and their deceased babies.

In an August 15 dedication ceremony, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, blessed the shrine and emphasized the importance of promoting “awareness that abortion is a terrible crime that frustrates the destiny of many human beings.”

Brenda del Río, the founder and director of Los Inocentes de María (Mary’s Innocent Ones), said the main goal, “is to combat violence against children, both in the womb and in early childhood, newborns and up to two, five, six years old, when lamentably many are murdered,” some are even “thrown into sewers, onto vacant lots.”

So far the association has buried 267 preborn children, newborns and infants.

Del Rio said that the parents of aborted babies can give their child a name, handwriting it on a small piece of paper to be transcribed on a clear plastic tile placed on the walls next to the shrine.

This is intended to help grieving parents “to reconcile with their child, [and] to reconcile with God.”