This chapel was one of the features of the original Grotto.

The niche below The Miriam Chapel, excavated in 1924, was first used as a Calvary Chapel, donated by the Congregation of Notre Dame.

Later it was to be the altar for the Holy Souls, only to become at a later date a Shrine of the Holy Child Jesus.

Finally the shrine was to depict the tenth Station of the Cross, as it does to this day, Jesus lying in the sepulchre.