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For The Minnesota Travellers, A Miracle Isn't The Purpose Of Their Two-Day Trip, Though They Would Welcome One, It's Often About Looking For A Closer Connection To The Almighty Through The Mum Of Christ.
Cornfields and soaring grain silos line the Minnesota Catholics ' approach to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help. The smell of manure wafts from close by dairy farms.
But the car park where the motor coach stops is newly graveled, and plans to expand beyond the shrine's small brick church and present shop are in progress. Because like this group from Hastings, pilgrims are coming.
It's here at this modest shrine in the heart of Wisconsin farm country, where Catholics think the Virgin Mary appeared more than 150 years ago. 8 months back, the bishop in close by Green Bay officially certified the apparitions, making the shrine the 1st such holy site in the country and one of only a dozen or so in the world.
Since that time, regular visitors to the site have grown from about a hundred a year to a few thousand a week. The Hastings group numbers 19.
For the Minnesota travellers, a miracle isn't the aim of their two-day trip, though they would welcome one. It's generally about looking for a closer connection to the Almighty through the mother of Christ.
"It's like heaven touching earth," recounted Joanne Knoll, "It is extraordinarily moving, to know she was there."
A wait of 150 years
Early morning sunlight filtered thru the clouds at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Hastings last month as the travellers readied themselves for the just about 300-mile journey.
Of the church's virtually ten thousand members, several have gone on other pilgrimages to places where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared : Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal and Medjugorje in Yugoslavia.
Joanne and Jerry Knoll have led trips to Medjugorje where you can find a good Medjugorje accommodation, and Jerry is a driver for a motor coach company, so it was natural that they would come up with the idea of this pilgrimage.
"It's exciting for me because I will be able to get out of this everyday monotony and go over there and relax and pray and not need to stress about anything else," related Jerry, 61.
As Jerry Knoll led the bus east, someone hit "Play" and a DVD informed the story of the shrine.
In 1855, a religious young girl by the name of Adele Brise left her native Belgium and settled on the Green Bay headland with her folks. In October 1859, she was twenty-eight and on her way to a grist mill when she saw a lady dressed all in white standing between two trees. She froze and studied till the vision slowly disappeared. The following Sunday, the woman in white appeared again to Adele in the same place while she was on her way to mass.
She saw the figure once more. This time the woman identified herself as the "Queen of Heaven" and implored Brise to teach children about their Catholic religion. Brise devoted her life to that mission. Initially, she traveled the headland on foot, going from home to home to teach children. She was at last joined by other younger women who later helped her found a church, convent and school near the site of the apparitions.
Drawn by reports of cures, conversions and more evidence of a divine presence at the shrine, thousands of constant have paid a visit to the site. Bishops have claimed mass there. However it wasn't till the tenure of Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, in Jan 2009, the church opened an inquiry into the apparitions.
While there have been many reported sightings of Mary, the Catholic church is sceptical of fabrications and seldom investigates. The Vatican leaves analyses up to local bishops.
Bishop Ricken designated Marian scholars who studied Brise's correspondence and other backup paperwork. They looked into the reliability of her personality and the history of devotion at the shrine.
On Dec. Eight, 2010, Ricken certified the apparitions, declaring they "exhibit the substance of supernatural personality" and are "worthy of belief."
Our Lady of Good Help became an official Marian apparition site.
The shrine beckons
The 8-acre shrine property isn't in the league of more well known Marian shrines : Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico, with its 20,000,000 visitors a year, or Lourdes, with its healing spring water as reported tagza.com.
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