After the erection of that cross on the top of the Hill, the farmer decided to speak to the parish priest about the incidences that had occurred at the Hill of Sorrows. Fr Lashkewich listened attentively and decided that it ought to be brought to the bishop. At that time, all of the Ukrainian Catholics in Canada were governed from Winnipeg, where Bishop Ladyka lived. 

I’m 1946, the Bishop approved a three day mission to be celebrated in Cudworth each year on the tenth Sunday after Julian Easter, a date which corresponded to the apparition on the Hill. 

Over the years many bishops and priests have found their way to the Hill of Sorrows. The first Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon worked diligently with the pastors of Cudworth and the people of the area to build up the Shrine. In the 1940s a stone altar was erected at the top of the hill and elegant Stations of the Cross were set up permanently in a ring around the site. A white chapel was erected where the Mother of God disappeared and it housed beautiful statues of Our Lord entombed and the Sorrowful Mother. 

The need for a place of worship led to the relocation of the Church of St Demitrus to the Shrine. It was attached to the small white chapel and became a well loved fixture on the site. 

When Ukraine was occupied by the Soviets the Shrine took on a new dimension as a place of hope and comfort, a place to pray for all those enduring the horrors of communism.

Hundreds and sometimes thousands would come to the pilgrimage every year from all over the province and people found in the Hill a place of solace and healing.