[2] Suarez got the idea of developing a pilgrimage site from Hermilando Mandanas, a local politician and acquaintance whom he met in 2006, where the priest could perform his faith healing work.

Mandanas' company, Abacore Capital Holdings, Inc., donated the five-hectare land in Barangay Pagkilatan where the statue and the proposed pilgrimage site would stand, which would later be called Montemaria.

But in the following year, the project was later put on hold after Suarez moved to Cavite, where San Miguel Corporation offered him a 33-hectare land in the town of Alfonso where he could set up a bigger pilgrimage site.

[5] The Mother of All Asia's hands and face was designed by sculptor Eduardo Castrillo[6] and is made of concrete and steel.

A place of worship, the St. John Paul II Shrine, is hosted on the ground floor of the monument.