Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of Good Help, Champion
In October 1859 Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said a lady in white appeared to her three times near Champion, Wisconsin, asking her to teach children the faith; in 2010 the bishop of Green Bay approved it as worthy of belief.
1859 CE · 44.60, -87.81 · status: account
The account
It is the first Marian apparition in the United States to receive such approval. Tradition says the chapel grounds were spared in the Peshtigo fire of 1871 when people prayed there.
The sceptical view
As with other approved apparitions, approval concerns the devotion; the event rests on one witness.