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Their limbs are rounded and shapely, their figures full and lithe; they are what I've heard you say Homer calls Briseïs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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The afflicted and the faithful have long made pilgrimages to the quiet country site where Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said in 1859 that she saw the Virgin Mary three times.
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I knew that there would be some increase in interest after he certified Brise's vision, Ricken says.
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For the past few years, maybe 30 or 50 people had trickled in daily to visit the chapel, Brise's grave and the candlelit crypt that marks the site of the apparition.
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That changed in December, when Bishop David Ricken of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay certified after investigations by three theologians that Brise had indeed seen a beautiful lady in white who said she was the "queen of heaven."
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The apparition asked Brise to do the same, and to gather children and teach them what they should know for salvation.
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After receiving the apparitions, Brise established a Catholic school and a community of Franciscan women.
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Brise would recount that a lady dressed in dazzling white appeared to her and claimed to be the "Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners," according to information provided by the Green Bay diocese.
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My take on this is that the speeds of the Calatrava "Brise Soleil" opening and the wind turbines are OK because, like a lot of elements in this work, they are done as if shot in time lapse.
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Brise was 28 at the time of the visions, and had emigrated to Wisconsin from Belgium with her family about four years earlier.
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