Worshippers making their way out of a chapel within the grounds of the Carfin Grotto, Lanarkshire, Scotland, after a lunchtime service. Carfin Lourdes Grotto, a Roman Catholic shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, was created in the early twentieth century. It was the brainchild of Father, later Canon, Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin, which lies two miles east of Motherwell, in the west of Scotland.