A view of the St Anne Shell Chapel on the campus of St Mary of the Woods College in Indiana. The current chapel was built in 1875, and the walls decorated with hundreds of mussel shells in various designs. The shells were harvested from the local Wabash River which flows through western Indiana. Much of the artwork on the shell chapel was done by Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte. And the inspiration for the original chapel was from Mother Theodore and Sister Mary Cecilia Bailly, after a successful return voyage from Europe, where they were seeking donations. It was from St. Anne that they asked for protection on their voyage home.