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Amidst the countryside and quiet farmland of Champion, Wis., there is a unique and spiritually significant place in American Catholic history — it is the site of the only approved
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In early June, the U.S. Catholic bishops voted unanimously to begin the process of officially declaring Adele Brise a saint. Brise, an immigrant from Belgium living in northern Wisconsin, witnessed
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Champion, Wisconsin may seem like an unusual place for a Church-approved Marian Apparition site. Surrounded by farmlands, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion doesn’t have the grandeur of Lourdes or
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“Go and fear nothing, I will help you . . . ” These are the last words our Blessed Mother shared with twenty-eight-year-old Adele Brise on October 9, 1859. Words
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A new film called “Return to Our Lady of Champion” will premiere on EWTN on the day the national shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Champion celebrates the second annual
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Devotion to this Blessed Mother under the title of “Our Lady of Good Help” dates to three apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1859...

Dominican Sister Imelda Marie Shaw grew up believing, without a doubt, that Our Lady had appeared in Wisconsin in 1859. She also believes one of her ancestors was healed of
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The film Return to Our Lady of Champion will premiere on EWTN the day the national shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Champion celebrates the second-annual Solemnity of Our Lady of Champion.
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I pilgrimaged to the grounds of Our Lady’s Shrine in Champion from Atlanta to ogle the sights and absorb the scents of Our Lady of Champion Shrine with the abandon
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“Go and fear nothing. I will help you.” It is a message that has stayed with Chiara Schwartz and Gabriela Perez since they visited The National Shrine of Our Lady of
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