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The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help is built directly over the site where Mary "The Queen of Heaven" appeared to Adele Brise, a young Belgian immigrant woman, in October of 1859.

On Oct. 9, 1859, Adele Brise, a young Belgian woman said the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to her at Champion in Brown County, northeast of Green Bay. She said Mary asked her to teach religion to children. Soon, her father built a chapel on the site and Adele started a school and a community of women to teach in it. When the Peshtigo Fire spread across Green Bay on Oct. 8, 1871, area residents walked around the chapel grounds all night praying the rosary and carrying a statue of Mary. Everything outside that five-acre area was burned. Every year on Oct. 8 people reenact the procession at the Shrine. There is also a large procession and outdoor Mass on Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption of Mary into heaven. The fourth -- and current chapel with a shrine to Mary in the crypt -- was dedicated on July 12, 1942. Adele Brise is buried on the grounds. The Diocese of Green Bay cares for the chapel, which serves as a testimony to the power of prayer. On Dec. 8, 2010, at a special Mass at the Shrine for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay announced that he officially approved the Marian apparitions at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help™. All are welcomed and encouraged to read a more in-depth history of the apparition of Our Lady of Good Help and the history of the Shrine of The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at http://www.shrineofourladyofgoodhelp.com .

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