Our Lady of Champion: Fr. Tony Stephens on the Shrine’s Story and Mission: Holy Family Radio Interview
In this interview, Fr. Tony Stephens, CPM, Rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, shares his journey to the priesthood and the remarkable story of Our Lady’s 1859 apparitions to Adele Brice. He discusses Mary’s call to teach the Catholic faith, the Miracle of the Fire, the ongoing mission of The Shrine, and the annual Walk to Mary pilgrimage. Holy Family Radio The Holy Family Radio apostolate was organized in January 2008 as a means of Catholic evangelization, education and ecumenical outreach. The desire of the apostolate is to share the life-changing message of the Gospel and the heart of the Catholic Faith. In June 2008, Holy Family Radio was incorporated as a non-profit Michigan corporation. Click the link below to listen to the interview!
Our Lady Cares for the Sick: A Polio Survivor Shares An Answered Prayer from 1955
Our Lady Cares for the Sick: A Polio Survivor Shares An Answered Prayer from 1955 [Champion Blog by Roy Rasmussen] Decades before The National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion became an international pilgrimage site, local residents were coming here to ask the Blessed Mother for healings. While the healing reports we receive are not declared miracles without a long Church process, many personal encounters and graces received bear witness to the love Our Lady and Our Lord have for those who struggle with illnesses and disabilities. Recently we received a beautiful letter from a woman with polio who had generously donated one of her leg braces to The Shrine in a gesture of gratitude for a prayer answered over 70 years ago. Our friend wrote, “At 4 ½ years of age [I]
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Steps of Faith: The Jedwabny Family
Freak Accident Took Out Part of Teen’s Brain. 2 Years Later, Family Celebrates as He Walks Across a Finish Line (Exclusive) By Sam Gillette Almost two years after a Wisconsin teen suffered a debilitating traumatic brain injury, he marked an important milestone by standing up from his wheelchair and stepping across a finish line. “I would say the last 20 to 30 yards was 100% him,” says Tyler Jedwabny of watching son Brett Jedwabny, 17, complete last month's 1.7-mile Walk With the Children that coincides with the 22-mile pilgrimage Walk to Mary at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, the only approved Marian Apparition site in the U.S. “He was pretty excited about it,” Tyler tells PEOPLE. “He knew what it meant, and he knew it was important.” Faith has been an anchor for the Jedwabny family since
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Heroes with halos: Shrine unites faithful and saints for Fourth of July celebration
CHAMPION, Wis. (OSV News) — A small churchyard amid Wisconsin farmland became the site of a big holiday celebration over the Fourth of July weekend. There were no carnival rides, parades, apple pie or fireworks. Not even a brass band. It was, however, a gathering of families in faith. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion hosted a celebration of Catholic Saints of America July 1-9. With relics of 14 saints and blesseds, along with tents of displays from shrines and sainthood guilds around the country, the shrine celebrated what it means to be Catholic Americans. “Yes, we are faithful citizens of the United States of America, but we are first of all, by baptism, Catholics,” Father of Mercy Nathanael Mudd, shrine chaplain, told OSV News. “And that identity, as sons and daughters of God
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American Saints Photo Album
Thousands of pilgrims gathered at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion for the Catholic Saints of America Exhibit, a first-of-its-kind celebration honoring the saints, blesseds, venerables, and servants of God who helped shape the Catholic story of our nation. One of the most beautiful parts of this exhibit was seeing so many different causes, shrines, guilds, families, and pilgrims come together from across the country. Each display told a story. Each relic, photo, timeline, and testimony helped remind us that holiness is not something far away. Sainthood is possible here, in our own country, in our own families, and in our own time. Families walked through the Hall of American Holiness learning about heroic priests, religious sisters, martyrs, missionaries, mothers, fathers, children, and everyday witnesses who gave their lives to Christ.
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