The Negotiation of Authority at a Frontier Marian Apparition Site: Adele Brise and Our Lady of Good Help

Marian Apparitions in Trans‐Historical and Socio‐Political Contexts: Interpreting the Virgin Mary's Appearances from Maryland to Manila, Fatima to Florence

“…The United States has been the site of many Marian apparitions since the nineteenth century, a development Sandra Zimdars‐Swartz called the “Marian Revival in American Catholicism” (Zimdars‐Swartz ). To this revival can now be added Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, Wisconsin—a mid‐nineteenth‐century apparition that was declared “worthy of belief” in 2010 by Bishop David Ricken, making it the only officially approved Marian apparition in the United States (Park ). Other Marian apparitions have been uneasily tolerated, openly discouraged, or declared fraudulent by the church.…”

Contemporary Marian apparitions and devotional cultures

“…Visionary Blessed John, whose Marian apparitions began in the 1980s in the U.S.S.R., founded The Orthodox Church of the Sovereign Mother of God in the 1990s (Clay, ). Church leaders, even decades after the apparitions have ended or the visionary has died, may control the official narrative about the apparitions and interpretations of their meanings (Park, ).…”