SpiritDaily: Wisconsin shrine director cites 'endless' healings

Crutches on the wall are a sample of the hundreds that 

have been left at the shrine after healing miracles.

Bishop Ricken said the moral fiber Brise demonstrated throughout her life was the leading factor in his decision. "There is nothing in the person and character of Adele Brise that would question the veracity of the substance of her account," he said in the decree.

The shrine has built a reputation as a sacred place, attracting the sick and the troubled with prayers. Doefler said there were seemingly endless stories of terminal ailments disappearing and longstanding feuds and family struggles evaporating.

Its healing powers are what Michael Lee and his family believe cured his brother of a brain tumor more than 50 years ago. The boy couldn't walk because the tumor had taken away his balance.

Lee's parents drove to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help and, for nine days, walked on their knees around the altar of the shrine, petitioning for their son's tumor to heal.

A few days after their return, Lee said, his brother's balance returned. He could walk again.

His doctor was dumbfounded by what medical tests revealed: The tumor was gone. Lee said the doctor wrote to the bishop at the time, calling the recovery "medically unexplainable."

Lee, 58, who works as a lay minister at a parish in Green Bay, said the simple shrine held significance to his family.

"It was always there in the back of our mind, that if anything serious or important came up, that was a resource," Lee said. "It gives you this deep sense of hope. Even if the physical thing you came there wanting healed isn't. There is this feeling that there is something greater than us that gives, cares and loves."

LATimes

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