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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 Generally About Seeking A Closer Connection To The Almighty Thru The Mum Of Christ.

Cornfields and soaring grain silos line the Minnesota Catholics ' approach to the Shrine of Our Woman of Good Help. The hint of manure wafts from nearby dairy farms.

But the car park where the motor coach stops is newly graveled, and plans to grow beyond the shrine's little brick church and present shop are in progress. Because like this group from Hastings, travellers are coming.

It's here at this modest shrine in the center of Wisconsin farm country, where Catholics assume the Virgin Mary appeared more than 150 years ago. 8 months ago, the bishop in nearby Green Bay officially validated the apparitions, making the shrine the first such holy site in the country and one of only 12 or so in the world.

Since that time, repeated visitors to the site have grown from a couple of hundred a year to about a 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 might welcome one. It's mostly about seeking a closer connection to the Almighty through the ma of Christ.

"It's like heaven touching earth," recounted Joanne Knoll, "It is very moving, to grasp she was there."

A wait of 150 years

Early morning sunlight filtered through the clouds at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Hastings last month as the travellers readied themselves for the nearly 300-mile journey.

Of the church's just about ten thousand members, several have gone on other pilgrimages to places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared : Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal and Medjugorje in Yugoslavia.

Joanne and Jerry Knoll have led journeys 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 might come up with the idea of this pilgrimage.

"It's exciting for me because I am able to get out of this day to day monotony and go over there and relax and pray and not have to stress about anything else," said Jerry, 61.

As Jerry Knoll steered the bus east, somebody hit "Play" and a DVD told the story of the shrine.

In 1855, a pious young girl by the name of Adele Brise left her local Belgium and settled on the Green Bay spur with her folks. In October 1859, she was twenty-eight and on her way to a grist mill when she saw a woman clothed all in white standing between 2 trees. She froze and observed until the vision slowly vanished. The following Sun., 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 kids about their Catholic religion. Brise gave her life to that mission. Initially, she traveled the headland on foot, going from home to home to teach kids. She was eventually joined by other younger girls who later assisted her found a church, convent and school near the location 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. But it wasn't until the duration of Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, in Jan 2009, that the church opened an investigation into the apparitions.

While there have been many reported sightings of Mary, the Catholic church is wary of fabrications and rarely investigates. The Vatican leaves analyses up to local bishops.

Bishop Ricken appointed Marian scholars who studied Brise's correspondence and other supporting paperwork. They looked into the trustworthiness of her personality and the history of devotion at the shrine.

On Dec. Eight, 2010, Ricken validated the apparitions, declaring they "exhibit the substance of mystical personality" and are "worthy of belief."

Our Woman 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 Woman of Guadalupe, in Mexico, with its 20 million visitors a year, or Lourdes, with its healing spring water as reported tagza.com.
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