Our Lady of Champion: Episode One
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode One: Adele’s Promise
The Wisconsin frontier. October, 1859. A young Belgian woman and her family struggle to stay alive in their harsh New World surroundings. They came to America for space, opportunity, and the promise of a new and prosperous life. But nature conspires against them, and the people have turned as wild and dangerous as the land they’re trying to settle. This is the story of Adele Brise and Our Lady of Champion.
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On the frontiers of Wisconsin, Adele Brise’s life reveals the quiet strength of faith, humility, and perseverance. In answering Our Lady’s call to teach the faith, she shows how trust in God, humble service, and steadfast love can transform hearts - and places - to God’s love.
This series contains moments of intensity. Voices are raised in arguments. Adele meets with gossip, hostility, and criticism in her mission of teaching catechism. A child is injured in a wagon accident. The Brise family struggles with the dangers of frontier life. Adele Brise is falsely accused of giving alcohol to children at a church festival. There are threats of danger due to a wildfire.
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| 0:00.0 | The Wisconsin Frontier, October 1859. |
| 0:05.0 | A young Belgian woman and her family struggled to stay alive in their harsh new world surroundings. |
| 0:12.0 | They came to America for space, opportunity, and the promise of a new and prosperous life. |
| 0:19.0 | But nature conspires against them, and the people have turned as wild and dangerous as the |
| 0:25.2 | land they're trying to settle. |
| 0:27.3 | This is the story of Adele Bryce and Our Lady of Champion. |
| 0:40.9 | The Saints The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage, Our Lady of Champion. |
| 0:46.8 | Episode one, Adele's Promise. |
| 0:50.2 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:55.7 | Sponsored by Colby Academy. |
| 0:58.2 | Colby's expert advisors and teachers are with you every step of the way |
| 1:02.2 | to give your children a truly personalized Catholic home education. |
| 1:06.1 | Learn more at the Saintspodcast.com slash Colby. |
| 1:23.5 | Thank you. at the saintspodcast.com slash colby. My dear cousin, I am writing to you from inside our family's cabin. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, Isabel is writing for me. I am nearly blind in one eye now from the accident. |
| 1:36.3 | You asked how the settlement of Belgians in America resembles home? |
| 1:47.7 | It doesn't. There are familiar faces here, and most everyone speaks French, thank God. But those are the only similarities. It's a wild country and I don't know if our faith will survive. The nearest church |
| 2:00.0 | is still ten miles away in Bay Settlement. |
| 2:03.6 | It's a long hike when you've spent all day splitting wood and building fires and digging holes to plant potatoes. |
| 2:13.6 | Those who go to Mass don't linger. |
| 2:18.3 | There aren't any suppers or sing-alongs or dances. |
| 2:23.3 | I thought that would change. |
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