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Adele Brice

Belgian-born American Third order Franciscan nun and Marian visionary

Servant of GodBelgiumThird Order of Saint Francis
Born
1831
Died
1896
Beatified
not yet
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

Adele Brice, T.O.S.F. (January 30, 1831 – July 5, 1896) was a Belgian-born American Catholic laywoman and Marian visionary who reported a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1859 in what is now Champion, Wisconsin, then a rural Belgian Catholic settlement.

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The miracles

Cause open

A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q113736932 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Adele Brice (CC BY-SA)

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