On October 9, 1859, in an area northeast of Green Bay, WI, Adele Brise saw for the third and last time, the vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary between a hemlock and maple tree. The Blessed Mother told Adele to teach the children their faith. Adele’s dad built a small wooden structure at the site of the apparition and a larger chapel was built in 1865. The present chapel for Our Lady of Good Help was completed in 1942.
Twelve years after Adele’s vision, the 1871 Peshtigo fire headed towards the chapel. The Sisters, school children and area families as well as some livestock, fled to the Shrine’s chapel for protection. Sister Adele lead them in the rosary and they lifted the statue of Mary and processed around the outside of the chapel pleading for protection. The fire raged all around the compound and flames arched over it, but the fire never touched the chapel or the people there.
Although the outside of the fence posts were charred, the five acres around the Chapel of Our Lady of Good Help had been spared from the total firestorm devastation that surrounded it.
Chapel of Our Lady of Good Help
