Our Lady of Champion

In 2022, the Vatican approved the only apparition of the Blessed Mother in America – that is called Our Lady of Champion. In 1859, the Blessed Mother appeared 3 times to Adele Brise in Champion, Wisconsin. When she was a little girl, Adele was a victim of an accident that left her vision only in one eye. But she grew up as a woman of great faith. Mary appeared to her with a yellow sash on a white dress and a crown of many stars around her head. Surrounding her body was a bright light. Adele was terrified at the scene but Mary told her ‘Don’t worry, go and I’ll help you. I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners – and I want you to do the same. Please gather many children and tell them what they should do to attain salvation.’ At the time Adele was 28, and she spent the rest of her life teaching children. At first she would go from house to house, walking everywhere. Then she opened a school and a few other women joined her, living according to the Third Order Franciscan rule.