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A record number of over 10,000 faithful are registered to participate in this tradition of honoring Christ and Our Lady with a 22-mile pilgrimage from the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, WI, to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion. The Shrine is the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States. We wrote about the apparition’s seer Adele Brice a few months back on this blog—her cause for canonization was recently opened by the Most Reverend David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay. Servant of God Adele Brice devoted her life to traveling on foot as far as fifty miles through the Wisconsin wilderness to catechize families and children regardless of the weather, heeding the instructions to evangelize given to her by Our Lady of Champion.