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Our Lady of Good Help U.S. Apparition receives formal approval--uploaded by irapuato. RelevantRadioNetwork December 08, 2010 Drew Mariani documents the appearance of Our Lady to Adele Brise in Northeast …More
Our Lady of Good Help U.S. Apparition receives formal approval--uploaded by irapuato.
RelevantRadioNetwork December 08, 2010 Drew Mariani documents the appearance of Our Lady to Adele Brise in Northeast Wisconsin and subsequent events that led to a formal decree approving on the Authenticity of the Apparitions of 1859 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
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Thank you for this great introduction to Our Lady of good Help. Unfortunately the links dont fit any more. Perhaps they could be reactivadet?
Think I will visit Our Lady of good Help. Teach the children faith - and Jesus will find faith any time - also when He comes back.
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Thank you for this great introduction to Our Lady of good Help. Unfortunately the links dont fit any more. Perhaps they could be reactivadet?

Think I will visit Our Lady of good Help. Teach the children faith - and Jesus will find faith any time - also when He comes back.
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Also thanks for Guadelupe - I love what the Mother of God has done there.
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As one discovers when studying the stories of those canonized and beatified by the Church, lives blessed by an extraordinary amount of holy intercession are often lives bearing much suffering, tests and trials…circumstances which not only strengthen those receiving such intercession emotionally, but also spiritually. Sister Adele’s life proved …More
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As one discovers when studying the stories of those canonized and beatified by the Church, lives blessed by an extraordinary amount of holy intercession are often lives bearing much suffering, tests and trials…circumstances which not only strengthen those receiving such intercession emotionally, but also spiritually. Sister Adele’s life proved to follow that course of courage and struggle.
“Excommunication”
Once the story of the apparition was out, and pilgrimages and religious celebrations began to take place, avaricious and pleasure-seeking individuals took the opportunity to exploit the crowds who came to the Chapel. A variety of vendors set up business outside the Chapel grounds, over which Adele had no control, serving only to sully the solemnity of the feast of the Assumption and the Church. Such dealings threw a bad light on Adele and fueled the opposition of some of the clergy who believed her story a myth. Those who noted these irregularities pointed them out to the first Bishop of Green Bay, Joseph Melcher. Despite the lack of clear information and a complete understanding of the matter, Bishop Melcher placed an interdict on the Chapel. Sister Adele was refused the Sacraments and threatened with excommunication should she continue to tell her story of the apparition.
On one occasion, when Adele attended Sunday Mass with the children at a church a mile west of the Chapel, Adele found the pews closed against her. Adele heard Mass kneeling in the aisle.
Later, Bishop Melcher reconsidered and decided to visit the Chapel, accompanied by two physicians to test Sister Adele’s sanity. However, after protests by the vendors around the Chapel, the Bishop changed his mind on the visit, and commanded Sister Adele to close the school and the Chapel, and bring him the keys to both. After accomplishing the safe return home of her students, and after buying an acre of land near the Chapel to build a home to continue her commissioned duty to Our Lady, Sister Adele obeyed the Bishop’s command, reminding him that he would be responsible for the souls lost due to the lack of proper religious instruction. Impressed by her sincerity and zeal, the Bishop returned the keys to Sister Adele in order to continue her mission.
Later on, further examination of Sister Adele’s apparition at Robinsonville, filtered through the skeptical eye of Diocese of Green Bay administrator Father Edward Daems, was passed along to the second Bishop of Green Bay, the Most Reverend F.X. Krautbauer. Weeks afterward, the Bishop, accompanied by Fr. Daems, made an unannounced visit to the Chapel. This surprise visit left the Sisters startled and out of sorts…which led a day later to a letter of apology from Sister Adele and seven companions to Bishop Krautbauer.
“Some people came here this morning when they heard about your visit yesterday, and there was a kind of excitement when they knew that your Lordship was accompanied by the Rev. Daems instead of the good pastors who could give you better information…for if the last of your children, we will also be the most respectful and most obedient of all, even in the case of condemnation by your Lordship…In the name of our dear Mother, let us know the crime we have committed.
“If we are allowed to continue the hard task we undertook with the approbation of two right reverend bishops and under the direction of several good pastors, we will try to do just as well as before our sad misfortunes. We don’t want to promise better. Now, dear and righteous Rev. Bishop, if your Lordship wants some explanation about the apparition of our dear Mother in this holy place, about the many miracles wrought in the Chapel, about the immense crowd of pilgrims who came to pray with us, we are ready to give them.”

Whether the letter either lifted the ban or clarified clergy misconceptions about either the vendors or the apparitions is unknown. However, the school was flourishing and pilgrimages to the Chapel resumed more than a year later.
The Peshtigo Fire—Miraculous Preservation
Much has been written about the great Peshtigo Fire, which claimed an estimated 2500 lives; 10 times more than the great Chicago Fire, which occurred the same day. Our intent here, however, is to show how this tragedy played an important role in the events which occurred at Robinsonville.
In early October of 1859 Adele Brise received her first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On the following Sunday, October 9th, when the Blessed Mother appeared to Adele for the third time, she warned:
“If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them.”
We do not propose to pass judgment on the reasons for this catastrophe, but, one day short of 12 years after the Robinsonville apparition, on October 8, 1871, the great calamity fell and a tragedy begat a miracle. The Belgian colony which embraced a large part of the peninsula and included Robinsonville, was visited by the same whirlwind of fire and wind that devastated Peshtigo.
When the tornado of fire approached Robinsonville, Sister Adele and her companions were determined not to abandon the Chapel. Encircled by the inferno, the Sisters, the children, area farmers and their families fled to the Shrine for protection. The statue of Mary was raised reverently and was processed around the sanctuary. When wind and fire threatened suffocation, they turned in another direction to hope and pray, saying the rosary. Hours later, rains came in a downpour, extinguishing the fiery fury outside the Chapel. The Robinsonville area was destroyed and desolate…except for the convent, the school, the Chapel, and the five acres of land consecrated to the Virgin Mary. Though the fire singed the Chapel fence, it had not entered the Chapel grounds. Those assembled at the Chapel, realizing that they had witnessed a miracle, were asked by Sister Adele to retire to the Convent, where they were made as comfortable as possible for the rest of the night.
What’s more, the only livestock to survive the fire were the cattle brought to the Chapel grounds by farmers and their families who came to the Shrine seeking shelter from the firestorm. Though the Chapel well was only a few feet deep, it gave the cattle outside all the water they needed to survive the fire, while many deeper wells in the area went dry. Hence, the Chapel well has been sometimes referred to as the “miraculous well”.
In the days to follow the great fire, the poor Belgian pioneers needed no more proof that Mary’s visit to Sister Adele was genuine. Father Peter Pernin, known as the “hero of the Peshtigo Fire”, visited Sister Adele shortly after the catastrophe, and wrote…
“I have no intention either of passing judgment on the apparition of the Blessed Virgin and the pious pilgrimages which have resulted from it. Ecclesiastical authority has not yet spoken on the subject; it silently allows the good work to advance, awaiting perhaps some proof more striking and irrefutable before pronouncing its fiat. Far from me be the thought of forestalling ecclesiastical judgment.
“I have but another word to add. If it lay within the power of any of my readers to proceed to the spot and visit this humble place of pilgrimage, as yet in its infancy, and the only one, I believe, of its nature in the United States, I earnestly counsel them to go. There, they can see and question Adele Brise, who, without having sought it, is the soul and heroine of a good work, progressing with rapid strides from day to day; and I feel assured that, like myself, all those who have gone thither with an upright intention, they will return edified and happy at heart, if not convinced, of the reality of Our Lady’s apparition.”

Reports of Miracles
In the eyes of the Church, only perfect and complete cures are worthy of being called miracles. To date, no attempt has been made to record and authenticate the cures reported at the Chapel. However, many have left crutches behind at the Chapel as evidence of favors received.
Also, a gentleman wearing a hearing aid approached a woman leading the rosary for a group during the Feast of the Assumption procession of 1954. He fell back in his place after she indicated to him on her rosary how far the group had reached. About halfway around the procession road, the gentleman removed his hearing aid. Before entering the Chapel, the woman stepped back and said, “Thank you for saying the rosary with us.” The gentleman replied, “Thank you and thank God! I can now hear!”
This same woman gave a report of an instant cure that she witnessed during the time of Adele when the woman was a student at the Chapel school. A mother brought her blind child to the Chapel for a novena. During the praying of that novena’s rosary, the blind child shouted his mother’s name, pointed in several directions, and cried out “Mama, look! Mama, look, look!” The child could see.
Another example: a five-year-old child, niece of Sister Marguerite and Sister Addie at the Chapel, was kicked in the face by a horse. When the mother saw the limp, bleeding body of her little daughter, she immediately promised to make a 12-mile pilgrimage on foot to the Chapel. Immediately afterward, the bleeding stopped. And, after late examination, the child suffered no internal injuries or physical aftereffects. That girl became a religious for many years in Wisconsin, and her family has always been grateful for Mary’s special protection.
Nine-year-old Michael LaFond, fell from a barn, leaving him crippled. Four years later, nine women made a novena to the Chapel with Michael. After the third visit, Michael was cured, leaving his crutches behind at the Chapel.
A little girl of three had a running sore that received medical care for a long time. After making a novena at the Chapel, the wound closed.

A five-year-old boy could not walk. His mother promised to visit the Chapel, which was 16 miles from her home. She made the pilgrimage on foot. Feeling confident that her prayer would be heard, she took the boy by the hand upon her return and told him to walk. The boy, who had never walked before, could walk from that moment.
A nearly blind little girl from Bay Settlement had been suffering from measles that affected her vision, leaving spots and scales on the pupils of her eyes. After her mother brought her to the Chapel and prayed to the Blessed Virgin, the child’s eyes were cured almost immediately.
A seventeen-year-old boy contracted a severe case of double pneumonia, followed by a case of pleurisy. Declared tubercular by three doctors soon after, the young man was advised to move to the West. After making a novena at the Chapel, his lungs cleared. He passed all Army tests, served 19 months in World War I, and lived in perfect health long afterward. He felt confident that Our Lady’s intercession cured him.
Before childbirth, a young woman contracted a very serious kidney infection that kept her bedridden for five weeks. She was running a fever, and was in great pain. Her doctor declared that her kidney condition would not clear up until after childbirth. Nine persons made a novena for her at the Chapel. A few days later, the young woman was up and around, and in perfect health for the two months before the birth of her child. Out of gratitude, the parents dedicated the child to the Blessed Virgin.
In the year 1887, Father Cipin lead a large pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help and later reported a miraculous healing that took place at the Shrine during the pilgrimage. You can read Father's full account of the incident in his article entitled "We Fly to Your Cloak."
>Rev. Vojtech Cipin
Were these miracles? Whether they could be considered miracles or not, we can be sure that these favors have fostered and strengthened devotion to our Blessed Mother.
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Guadalupe celebration signifies history and future of Catholic America
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Empress of the Americas Headed to London
Our Lady of Guadalupe to End 9-Month Tour at Westminster
LONDON, DEC. 6, 2010 (Zenit.org).- A full-scale replica of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is concluding a nine-month tour of England and Wales, making its final stop at Westminster Cathedral.
The image will be in London for Dec. 12, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the anniversary of her …More
Empress of the Americas Headed to London

Our Lady of Guadalupe to End 9-Month Tour at Westminster

LONDON, DEC. 6, 2010 (Zenit.org).- A full-scale replica of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is concluding a nine-month tour of England and Wales, making its final stop at Westminster Cathedral.

The image will be in London for Dec. 12, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the anniversary of her appearance in Mexico to St. Juan Diego in 1531.

Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster will welcome the image and lead devotions in the cathedral on Saturday at noon.

The digitally reproduced image imprinted with official seals is one of 220 commissioned in 2004 by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of Mexico City. It was consecrated against the miraculous image on the original cloak (tilma) of St. Juan Diego.

The 220 consecrated images were distributed around the globe to fulfill the prediction made by Venerable Pope John Paul II when he proclaimed on his first trip to Mexico in 1979: "The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be the center from which the light of the gospel of Christ will illuminate the entire world by means of the miraculous image of his mother."

These images are classified as authorized relics.

Pope Pius XII declared the Virgin of Guadalupe "Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas" in 1945, and "Patroness of the Americas" in 1946. John Paul II confirmed her title as patroness in 1999, making Dec. 12 a solemnity.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is credited with being instrumental in the conversion of some 9 million Aztecs over a period of 10 years following the 1531 apparitions.

The basilica in Mexico City that houses St. Juan Diego's tilma with her image is the most visited shrine in the world.

The England-Wales novena tour began in March 2010 at Westminster Cathedral Hall. From there, Archbishop Nichols granted Edmund Adamus, the designated temporary custodian of the image, authority to seek permission of each diocesan bishop to allow the image to be welcomed in his diocese for devotional purposes for the cause of the Gospel of Life, the protection of the unborn, the sanctity of families and the peace of the nation.
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No matter the weather, Our Lady of Guadalupe festival goes on
By Robert Channick, Special to the Tribune
10:07 PM CST, December 11, 2010
Rain and slush Saturday proved no match for thousands of Catholics who descended upon a sacred Des Plaines shrine honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, to celebrate the day she reportedly appeared to a peasant in the 16th century.
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No matter the weather, Our Lady of Guadalupe festival goes on
By Robert Channick, Special to the Tribune
10:07 PM CST, December 11, 2010
Rain and slush Saturday proved no match for thousands of Catholics who descended upon a sacred Des Plaines shrine honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, to celebrate the day she reportedly appeared to a peasant in the 16th century.

"Weather like this, they get more emotional, because it's a greater sacrifice," said the Rev. Miguel Martinez, rector of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, whose modest flock expands exponentially each year on Dec. 11.

When the two-day festival ends Sunday, more than 100,000 worshippers are expected to appear — walking, running, biking and busing in from Chicago and beyond.

The date marks the reported appearance in 1531 of the Virgin Mary to peasant Juan Diego on a hillside in Tepeyac, near what is now Mexico City. While pilgrimages to a shrine at the original site have been taking place for nearly two centuries, the annual trek to a replica on the grounds of Maryville Academy is a more recent tradition.

In 1987, as the Catholic church began to officially recognize Juan Diego — a prelude to his subsequent canonization — the chapel at Maryville Academy opened its doors to a dozen or so followers on the anniversary of the apparition, according to Martinez.

An elaborate shrine was constructed in 1997, featuring an outdoor grotto replete with waterfalls, statues and a large painting bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Driven mostly by word of mouth, the pilgrimage soon put the River Road site on the map for Chicago-area Mexicans and other mostly Latino worshippers.

In 2005, the Archdiocese of Chicago recognized the groundswell by installing Martinez as the chapel's first pastor.

Attendance soon crossed into six figures and the event was stretched into a 36-hour marathon of Masses, celebration and increasingly more ambitious journeys to the shrine, with some worshippers walking for hours to pray before the virgin's image.

Under umbrellas, raincoats and ceremonial garb, a steady stream of waterlogged followers trudged in throughout the evening Saturday, most standing quietly in the rain as they looked at the shrine. Many brought flowers and votive candles to place at the shrine.

"The Virgin of Guadalupe, she gives you so much throughout the whole year. Five or six hours of walking is nothing," said Tomas Torres, 30, of Elmwood Park, warming up with a cup of coffee under a tent that also offered an abundance of Mexican food and mariachi music whose horns provided the night's soundtrack.

Some worshippers chose to attend one of 10 Spanish Masses running round-the-clock in a nearby gym, but for many pilgrims, arriving from as far away as California and Texas, it was the challenging journey itself that was the biggest draw.

Arriving after 5 p.m., Torres and his cousin Antonio Torres trekked 15 miles from St. John Bosco Parish on Chicago's North Side.

Some 2,000 followers walked 18 1/2 miles throughout the night from Our Lady of Lourdes Parish church on the North Side in what was that group's 10th annual pilgrimage.

A new contingent this year opted for something of a reverse pilgrimage.

Busing in from the South Side, a youth group from St. Gall Parish planned to run an all-night marathon of sorts — 27 miles through the slush and cold — back to their church near 55th Street and Kedzie Avenue.

Throughout the night, more and more followers arrived, filling the chapel grounds.

"They don't stay — they come and go, they come and go — but it's always this huge crowd," Martinez said.

For Martinez, who will spend some 36 straight hours tending to thousands of confessions, blessings and greetings, the weekend is not without some sacrifices of his own.

"I'll sleep on Monday," he said.

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Bishop Ricken approves Marian apparitions at Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
GREEN BAY, Wis. (December 8, 2010) -- Bishop David Ricken announced today that he officially approves the Marian apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
The announcement was made during a special Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
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Bishop Ricken approves Marian apparitions at Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
GREEN BAY, Wis. (December 8, 2010) -- Bishop David Ricken announced today that he officially approves the Marian apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
The announcement was made during a special Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
Declared with moral certainty
Reading from his decree, the Bishop stated, "I declare with moral certainty and in accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele Brise in October of 1859 do exhibit the substance of supernatural character, and I do hereby approve these apparitions as worthy of belief (although not obligatory) by the Christian faithful."
Today’s declaration makes Our Lady of Good Help at Champion the first and only site in the United States of an approved apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Three apparitions in 1859
In October 1859, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on three occasions to Adele Brise, a young Belgian immigrant. Brise stated that a lady dressed in dazzling white appeared to her and claimed to be the "Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners."
The Lady asked Brise to pray for sinners, as well as to gather the children and teach them what they should know for salvation. The Blessed Virgin followed the commands with these words of assurance to Adele Brise, "Go and fear nothing, I will help you."
Since 1859, countless faithful have made the pilgrimage to Champion, Wisconsin to offer prayers of thanksgiving and petition to Jesus and to ask for intercession from Our Lady of Good Help.
Fulfilling obligations
After receiving the apparitions, Adele Brise immediately began to fulfill the obligations the Blessed Virgin entrusted to her. She gathered local children and taught them how to pray, make the sign of the cross, and to give love, thanks, and praise to the Lord.
As part of her commitment to the Blessed Virgin, Brise set up a Catholic school and began a community of Third Order Franciscan women. Eventually, a school and convent were built on the grounds to further the mission entrusted to Brise.
Spared during Peshtigo fire
The 151-year history of the Shrine is rich with written and oral accounts of prayers that have been answered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help. The sources document physical healings and conversions that have taken place as a result of pilgrimages to the Shrine.
In addition, as the Peshtigo fire of 1871 engulfed the surrounding area, the entire five acres of land consecrated to the Blessed Virgin remained unscathed. It is believed that the land was spared after Brise organized a prayer vigil that circled the area.

More information
Decree approving the Authenticity of the Apparitions of 1859 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion
Decree approving the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion as a Diocesan Shrine in the Diocese of Green Bay
Basic information on apparitions at Champion
Brief history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion
Web site for the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion

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