"Mother of God" Making Miracles Near Green Bay, Wisconsin USA

Holy Cow!  I don't know how I missed this story - but here it is - from December, 2010!  That Mother of God, she's here, she's there, she's everywhere, just like the Scarlet Pimpernel!

Virgin Mary apparitions near Green Bay shrine recognized as first in U.S.

Approval puts Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in same category as Lourdes, Guadalupe and Fatima
9:53 AM, Dec. 9, 2010

A shrine in the town of Green Bay is one of only a handful in the world — and the sole location in the United States — officially designated as a place where the Virgin Mary appeared.

David Ricken, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, announced today his official approval of the Marian apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion.

Ricken’s decision makes the shrine the first and only site in the United States of an approved apparition of the Virgin Mary. The designation puts it in the same category as other famous Marian apparition sites such as Lourdes, France; Guadalupe, Mexico; and Fatima, Portugal.

According to the diocese, the Virgin Mary appeared in the area to Belgian immigrant Adele Brise three times in 1859.

Brise’s account states the apparition appeared in dazzling white claiming to be the “Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners” and asking Brise to also pray for sinners and teach children about salvation. Adele’s father built a chapel at the site of the apparitions soon after. The current chapel, which is the fourth one built in the location, was dedicated on July 12, 1942.



Now, a local family says the Virgin may have cured their young son of leukemia after they visited the shrine and little Joe asked to be made better! Link.   Not sure if that link works - here is one from ABC News' Prime Time Nightline on July 13, 2011 where little Joe Anderson's miracle was discussed in the context of an examination of the now Holy Site. 

A Miracle?

This event was verified as a genuine miracle by the Roman Catholic Church.

Amsterdam's own miracle of 1345
Published on : 24 March 2010 - 1:57pm

On 13 March 1345 an honest-to-God miracle occurred in Amsterdam. On that day, a dying man sent for a priest to administer the last sacraments. However, the man was so sick that he regurgitated the Host (the wafer that represents the body of Christ) and then died.

The Host returns
His vomit, including the Host, was thrown into the fire. The next day, the maid was surprised to find that the Host had remained untouched by the fire, and took it to the priest of Amsterdam's Old Church. Much to everyone's surprise, the Host reappeared at the dead man's house the next day. The maid again took it to the priest, but the host returned to the man's house twice. This wondrous sequence of events became known as the Miracle of Amsterdam.

The miracle was officially recognised by the Roman Catholic Church and considered proof of the actual presence of Jesus Christ in the Host. An annual procession was held to commemorate the Miracle of Amsterdam until all public expressions of the Catholic faith were banned in the 16th century.

The annual pilgrim's walk through Amsterdam, the Silent Procession (Stille Omgang), was held this year for the 129th time since its reintroduction in 1881.

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What I want to know is where is this Host today? Is it preserved somewhere similar to those mysterious "archives" where was saw the Ark of the Covenant stashed inside an anonymous wooden crate at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark?" Did someone take it in Holy Communion hundreds of years later? Was it destroyed during the Protestant revolts in the 1600s? Is it still on display inside a glass case, miraculously preserved and pristine white (except for some dried puke?)  Or did the Host finally get tired of magically rescuring itself from the fire and decide to walk away and hide in the forest - where it remains hidden to this day...