US bishops to decide whether to affirm opening the cause for Marian visionary Adele Brise osvnews.com
The U.S. bishops will soon hold a consultation on a petition to open the cause for canonization of Adele Brise, to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared in northeast Wisconsin in 1859.
Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken, who declared in 2010 that the apparitions to Brise were worthy of belief, will present the proposal during a consultation at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Spring Plenary Assembly June 12-14 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Brise, a Belgian immigrant, was 28 when the apparitions occurred some 18 miles northeast of Green Bay. The first took place while she was walking to a gristmill to grind grain. The last two took place a few days later while she was walking on the way to and from Sunday Mass.
“Since being assigned to the Diocese of Green Bay, Adele’s life, her encounter with the Blessed Mother, and her lasting witness to the faith have always inspired me,” Bishop Ricken told OSV News. “However, two years ago, this prayerful consideration to open her cause began as a response to seeing people kneeling in front of Adele’s grave in prayer when I visited the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion.”…
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